“My work cuts like a steel blade at the base of a man's penis.”
Response to a student's question in her writing class, as quoted by Louis Menand in the New Yorker (June 8-15, 2009), p. 112.
No. XXVI, My Wife.
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)
“My work cuts like a steel blade at the base of a man's penis.”
Response to a student's question in her writing class, as quoted by Louis Menand in the New Yorker (June 8-15, 2009), p. 112.
“True marriage is the union that mates
Equal with equal.”
Source: Prometheus Bound, line 890 (tr. G. M. Cookson)
Canto I, line 359
Source: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
“Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate”
(28th February 1824) Metrical Tales. Tale I. The Three Wells - A Fairy Tale
The London Literary Gazette, 1824
“A foot more light, a step more true,
Ne'er from the heath-flower dash'd the dew.”
Canto I, stanza 18.
The Lady of the Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3011 (1810)
“The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.”
Source: A Temple of Texts