Stern Gate

Famous quotes containing the words stern and/or gate:

    “The rich earth, of its own self made rich,
    Fertile of its own leaves and days and wars,
    Of its brown wheat rapturous in the wind,
    The nature of its women in the air,
    The stern voices of its necessitous men,
    This chorus as of those that wanted to live.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “Pale Death beats equally at the poor man’s gate and at the palaces of kings.”
    —Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65–8 B.C.)