“Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white; Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk; Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font: The firefly wakens: waken thou with me. Alfred Lord Tennyson
“On limestone quarried near the spot By his command these words are cut: Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by! William Butler Yeats
“Man’s discovery that his genitalia could serve as a weapon to generate fear must rank as one of the most important discoveries of prehistoric times, along with the use of fire and the first crude stone axe.Susan Brownmiller
“The pebble is a perfect creature equal to itself mindful of its limits filled exactly with a pebbly meaning Zbigniew Herbert