Woman Thou Art

Famous quotes containing the words thou art, woman, thou and/or art:

    “‘Stay—stay with us!—rest—thou art
    weary and worn!’—
    And fain was their war-broken soldier to stay;—
    But sorrow return’d with the dawning of morn,
    And the voice in my dreaming ear melted away.”
    —Thomas Campbell (1774–1844)

    “I think of you more often than of anyone else in this part of the world. I’d have liked to have you for a sweetheart, or a wife, or my mother or my sister—anything that a woman can be to a man. The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don’t realize it. You really are a part of me.”
    —Willa Cather (1873–1947)

    “Affliction is enamoured of thy parts,
    And thou art wedded to calamity.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “As always art is the pulse of a nation.”
    —Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)