Shadow Dragons

Famous quotes containing the words shadow and/or dragons:

    “The Word in the desert
    Is most attacked by voices of temptation,
    The crying shadow in the funeral dance,
    The loud lament of the disconsolate chimera.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “Hermann and Humbert are alike only in the sense that two dragons painted by the same artist at different periods of his life resemble each other. Both are neurotic scoundrels, yet there is a green lane in Paradise where Humbert is permitted to wander at dusk once a year; but Hell shall never parole Hermann.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)