“Vast wings above the lambent waters brood
Of sullen day.”
Flood, p. 16
Pomes Penyeach (1927)
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Irish novelist and poet 1882–1941Related quotes
Mother Night, st. 1.
Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917)
“[Dissents are] appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.”
Reported in "Keeping Politics out of the Court", The New York Times (December 9, 1984); quoted in The HarperCollins Dictionary of American Government and Politics (1992) by Jay M. Shafritz, p. 407
Reacting to the truthful reports that her husband, Bill Clinton, had an affair with White House intern, Monica Lewinsky; Interview with Matt Lauer on NBC's Today show (27 January 1998)
White House years (1993–2000)
Context: From my perspective, this is part of the continuing political campaign against my husband… I mean, look at the very people who are involved in this. They have popped up in other settings. The great story here for anybody willing to find it, write about it and explain it is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president.
“Sex is like a drink, it's bad to start brooding about it too early in the day.”
Source: Oryx and Crake
Source: 2010s, Nomad: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations (2010), Chapter 15, “Dishonor, Death, and Feminists” (pp. 233-234)
Source: The Story of his Life Told by Himself (1898), p. 62
Speech to the annual conference of the National Association of Mental Health in London (9 March 1961), quoted in The Times (10 March 1961), p. 8
1960s