Potency

Famous quotes containing the word potency:

“He tries by a peculiar speech to speak
The peculiar potency of the general,
To compound the imagination’s Latin with
The lingua franca et jocundissima.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action, in man.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)

“A few more years will destroy whatever yet remains of that magical potency which once belonged to the name of Byron.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)