“He has married me with a ring, a ring of bright water
Whose ripples spread from the heart of the sea,
He has married me with a ring of light, the glitter
Broadcast on the swift river.”

— Kathleen Raine

Source: Poem The Marriage of Psyche

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poet, critic, translator 1908–2003

AnnMaria De Mars (1958) American judoka

Quoted in "Rousey Is 1st U.S. Woman to Earn A Medal in Judo", in The Washington Post (14 August 2008) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/13/AR2008081303517.html

“Bright is the ring of words
When the right man rings them.”

Robert Louis Stevenson book Songs of Travel and Other Verses

No. XIV
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)

“If the phone doesn't ring, it's me.”

Jimmy Buffett (1946) American singer–songwriter and businessman

“A ring of polynomials in any number of variables over a ring of coeffcients that has an identity element and a finite basis, itself has a finite basis.”

Emmy Noether (1882–1935) German mathematician

As quoted in Morris Kline, Mathematical Thought From Ancient to Modern Times (1972) p. 1153.

“Ring the bells that still can ring.
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

"Anthem"
The Future (1992)

“Nothing has astonished me more (and I think my publishers) than the welcome given to The Lord of the Rings.”

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892–1973) British philologist and author, creator of classic fantasy works

But it is, of course, a constant source of consolation and pleasure to me. And, I may say, a piece of singular good fortune, much envied by some of my contemporaries. Wonderful people still buy the book, and to a man 'retired' that is both grateful and comforting.
No. 165: To Houghton Mifflin Co. (30 June, 1955); also quoted in 'Tolkien on Tolkien' in Diplomat magazine (October 1966).
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (1981)

“Dean Marney has also thrown his hat into the ring after Saturday. The more hats there are in the ring, the harder my job is”

Phil Brown (footballer) (1959) English association football player and manager

06-Mar-2007, Hull City OWS
It's tough maintaining discipline with all this hat-throwing going on.

“On his first hand he wore rings of stone,
Iron, Amber, Wood and Bone.
There were rings unseen on his second hand,
One was blood in a flowing band,
One was air all whisper thin,
And the ring of ice had a flaw within.
Full faintly shone the ring of flame,
And the final ring was without name.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

A poem from the second book of the The Kingkiller Chronicle, quoted in an interview at Fantasymundo (1 August 2009) http://www.fantasymundo.com/articulos/2207/fantasymundo_entrevista_patrick_rothfuss_nombre_viento
The Wise Man's Fear (2011)