Famous quotes containing the words played and/or violent:
“It was a pretty game, played on the smooth surface of the pond, a man against a loon.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Lift up our eyes to you?
no, God, we stare and stare,
upon a nearer thing
that greets us here,
Death, violent and near.”
—Hilda Doolittle (18861961)