Famous quotes containing the words stygian and/or abyss:
“I stalk about her door
Like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks
Staying for waftage.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Daddy?
That’s another kind of prison.
It’s not the prince at all,
but my father
drunkenly bent over my bed,
circling the abyss like a shark....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
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