Silent King

Famous quotes containing the words silent and/or king:

“Why should she give her bounty to the dead?
What is divinity if it can come
Only in silent shadows and in dreams?”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“The King [Charles II] after the Restoration accused the poet, Edmund Waller, of having made finer verses in praise of Oliver Cromwell than of himself; to which he agreed, saying, that Fiction was the soul of Poetry.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)