Poor Mothers

Famous quotes containing the words poor and/or mothers:

“Ghost. My hour is almost come
When I to sulph’rous and tormenting flames
Must render up myself.
Hamlet. Alas, poor ghost!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Death is the mother of beauty, mystical,
Within whose burning bosom we devise
Our earthly mothers waiting, sleeplessly.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)