Litany for Dictatorships (1935)
Context: We heard the shots in the night
But nobody knew next day what the trouble was
And a man must go to his work.
So I didn't see him
For three days, then, and me near out of my mind
And all the patrols on the streets with their dirty guns
And when he came back, he looked drunk, and the blood was on him.
“Nobody knew the Iron Man had fallen.
Night passed.”
Source: The Iron Man (1968), Ch. 1 : The Coming of the Iron Man
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English poet and children's writer 1930–1998Related quotes
Source: The Iron Man (1968), Ch. 1 : The Coming of the Iron Man
Context: The Iron Man came to the top of the cliff. How far had he walked? Nobody knows. Where did he come from? Nobody knows. How was he made? Nobody knows. Taller than a house the Iron Man stood at the top of the cliff, at the very brink, in the darkness.
“Because that was the night I knew I loved you. That I’d really and truly fallen in love.”
Source: The Best of Me
"A Place to Rest"
Poetry, Miscellaneous poems
“If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.”
"Memoirs of a Yellow Dog"
The Four Million (1906)
While at the EME Army center in 1951 in the cross country race he was declared 6 in the top 10 who among the 500 who ran. Quoted in ‘Flying Sikh' takes a nostalgic jog down memory lane, 6 April 2012, 13 December 2013, The Hindu http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-sports/flying-sikh-takes-a-nostalgic-jog-down-memory-lane/article3285904.ece,
Mid-Winter http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/blrossettichristmas.htm, st. 1 (1872).
Source: The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti
St. 4
Memorial Verses (1852)
“Nobody knew the seniors are susceptible”
Claimed about the coronavirus, as quoted in * 2020-09-16
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2020, September 2020