“Lord, confound this surly sister,
Blight her brow with blotch and blister,
Cramp her larynx, lung and liver,
In her guts a galling give her.”
The Curse.
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John Millington Synge16
Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, and collector of folk… 1871–1909Related quotes
“To her Lord, her Father; her Husband, her Brother; his Servant his Child; his Wife, his Sister; and to express all that is humble, respectful and loving to her Abelard, Heloise writes this.”
Domino suo, imo Patri; Conjugi suo, imo Fratri; Ancilla sua, imo Filia; ipsius Uxor, imo Soror; Abaelardo Heloisa, &c. Abel. Op.
Heloise (1101–1164) French nun, writer, scholar, and abbess
Letter II : Heloise to Abelard, Heading
Letters of Abelard and Heloise
“Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her.”
Jean Genet book Our Lady of the Flowers
Source: Our Lady of the Flowers
Ralph Hodgson (1871–1962) British writer
"Reason Has Moons", p. 64.
Poems (1917)
“Something in her eyes
Must be the smoke in my lungs.”
Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist
Clean Up Before She Comes.
Song lyrics, Posthumously released (post-1994)
Robert Graves (1895–1985) English poet and novelist
"To Juan at the Winter Solstice," lines 37–42, from Poems 1938-1945 (1946).
Poems
Source: Tam o' Shanter (1790), Line 10