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Octavio Paz71
Mexican writer laureated with the 1990 Nobel Prize for Lite… 1914–1998Related quotes
“The grey mare is the better horse.”
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Part II, chapter 4.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“What mare's nest hast thou found?”
John Fletcher (1579–1625) English Jacobean playwright
Act IV, scene 2.
The Tragedy of Bonduca (1611–14; published 1647)
“Soft carpet-knights, all scenting musk and amber.”
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590) French writer
Second Week, Third Day, Part i. Compare: "As much valour is to be found in feasting as in fighting, and some of our city captains and carpet knights will make this good, and prove it", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i, Section 2, Membrane 2, Subsection 2.
La Seconde Semaine (1584)
“I love the girl with golden hair
And the Tennessee stud loves the Tennessee mare.”
Jimmy Driftwood (1907–1998) singer
"Tennessee Stud" (1958)
Context: Pretty little baby on the cabin floor
Little hoss colt playin' 'round the door
I love the girl with golden hair
And the Tennessee stud loves the Tennessee mare.
“I saw a flie within a beade
Of amber cleanly buried.”
Robert Herrick book Hesperides
"The Amber Bead" (published c. 1648). Compare: "Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb", Francis Bacon, Historia Vitæ et Mortis; Sylva Sylvarum, Cent. i. Exper. 100.
Hesperides (1648)
“Visions of your chestnut mare shoot through my head and are makin' me see stars.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), Idiot Wind