
The Rubaiyat (1120)
Allan Quatermain (1887), INTRODUCTION
The Rubaiyat (1120)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 403.
V, st. 1
The Tower (1928), Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1547/
Source: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Nobel lecture (2005)
Context: There are three main features to this changing landscape: the emergence of an extensive black market in nuclear material and equipment; the proliferation of nuclear weapons and sensitive nuclear technology; and the stagnation in nuclear disarmament.
Today, with globalization bringing us ever closer together, if we choose to ignore the insecurities of some, they will soon become the insecurities of all.
“Wheels on fire, rolling down the road, best notify my next of kin, this wheel shall explode!”
Song lyrics, The Basement Tapes (1975), This Wheel's on Fire (recorded in 1967)