Famous quotes containing the words novice and/or stake:
“A novice was sitting on a cornice
High over the city. Angels
Combined their prayers with those
Of the police, begging her to come off it.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“Ill stake all my soul
on that beauty,
till God shall awake
again in mens hearts,
who have said he is dead
our King and our Lover.”
—Hilda Doolittle (18861961)