Woman Thou Art

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

    “Thou art my life, my love, my heart,
    The very eyes of me:
    And hast command of every part
    To live and die for thee.”
    —Robert Herrick (1591–1674)

    “Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede I have ever seen? “And here is my good big centipede!” If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race.”
    —William Burroughs (b. 1914)

    “My glass shall not persuade me I am old
    So long as youth and thou are of one date,
    But when in thee time’s furrows I behold,
    Then look I death my days should expiate.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Nature, hating art and pains,
    Baulks and baffles plotting brains;
    Casualty and Surprise
    Are the apples of her eyes;
    But she dearly loves the poor,
    And, by marvel of her own,
    Strikes the loud pretender down.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)