Famous quotes containing the words emperor, middle and/or reign:
“The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“In the middle of the next century, when the literary establishment will reflect the multicultural makeup of this country and not be dominated by assimiliationists with similar tastes, from similar backgrounds, and of similar pretensions, Langston Hughes will be to the twentieth century what Walt Whitman was to the nineteenth.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)
“Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)