“Let the gossip roll!
What to me are Hamlet's garters,
or the whirlwind of Salome's dance,
or the tread of the Man in the Iron Mask?
I am more iron than they.”
Poem without a Hero (1963)
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Russian modernist poet 1889–1966Related quotes
“Ay me! what perils do environ
The man that meddles with cold iron!”
Canto III, line 1
Source: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
Song lyrics, Biograph (1985), Up to Me (recorded 1974)
“Not iron, trust me,
the heart within my breast. I am all compassion.”
V. 190–191 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
“I'm not the kind of person you think I am,
I'm not the anti-Christ, or the iron man.”
Gets Me Through, written by Ozzy Osbourne and Tim Palmer.
Song lyrics, Down to Earth (2001)
“but I am not here ironically; I am here sincerely.”
Source: Magical Thinking: True Stories
"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"
Transformations (1971)
“The name of an iron man goes round the world.
It takes a long time to forget an iron man.”
"Washington Monument by Night" in Slabs of the Sunburnt West (1922)
“I’m being ironic. Don't interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it’s not polite.”
Usher II (1950)
Source: The Martian Chronicles (1950)