Pit Fiend Greater

Famous quotes containing the words pit, fiend and/or greater:

    “It’s well
    If God who holds you to the pit of hell,
    Much as one holds a spider, will destroy,
    Baffle and dissipate your soul.”
    —Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

    “Like a fiend in a cloud
    With howling woe,
    After night I do crowd,
    And with night will go;”
    —William Blake (1757–1827)

    “But wonder at a greater wonder, for to us
    Created nature doth these things subdue,
    But their Creator, whom sin nor nature tied,
    For us, his Creatures and his foes, hath died.”
    —John Donne (1572–1631)