Famous quotes containing the words precious stones, precious and/or stones:
“License my roving hands, and let them go
Before, behind, between, above, below.
O my America! my new-found-land,
My kingdom, safeliest when with one man manned,
My mine of precious stones, my empery,
How blest am I in this discovering thee!
To enter in these bonds is to be free;
Then where my hand is set, my seal shall be.”
—John Donne (1572–1631)
“Death is untutored, with an ignorant frown
For precious identities of breath.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“Red lips are not so red As the stained stones kissed by the English dead.”
—Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)