Mother Bear

Famous quotes containing the words mother and/or bear:

    “My mother dandled me and sang,
    “How young it is, how young!”
    And made a golden cradle
    That on a willow swung.
    “He went away,” my mother sang,
    “When I was brought to bed....””
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “I saw a staring virgin stand
    Where holy Dionysus died,
    And tear the heart out of his side,
    And lay the heart upon her hand
    And bear that beating heart away;”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)