Satanic Verses/tabar%C4%ABs Account

Famous quotes containing the words satanic, verses and/or account:

    of the satanic thistle that raises its horned symmetry
    flowering above sister grass-daisies’ pink tiny
    bloomlets angelic as lightbulbs—
    Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)

    To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.
    Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

    It is an agreeable change to cross a lake, after you have been shut up in the woods, not only on account of the greater expanse of water, but also of sky. It is one of the surprises which Nature has in store for the traveler in the forest. To look down, in this case, over eighteen miles of water, was liberating and civilizing even.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)