Famous quotes containing the words pharaoh and/or asked:
“Be mine the tomb that swallowed up Pharaoh and all his hosts; let me lie down with Drake, where he sleeps in the sea.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“I asked the master Yeats
Whose great style could not tell
Why it is man hates
His own salvation,
Prefers the way to hell....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)