“Let someone arise from my bones as an Avenger.”
Exoriare aliquis nostris ex ossibus ultor.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book IV, Line 625
Aeneid, Book IV, p. 216
Translations, The Poems of Virgil Translated Into English Prose (1872)
“Let someone arise from my bones as an Avenger.”
Exoriare aliquis nostris ex ossibus ultor.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book IV, Line 625
“Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.”
Sylvia Plath book The Colossus and Other Poems
Source: The Colossus and Other Poems
“I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones…”
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892–1973) British philologist and author, creator of classic fantasy works
Valedictory address to the University of Oxford (1959)
“I could feel the winter shaking my bones and banging my teeth together.”
Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar
Source: The Bell Jar
“Politics is in my bones. I grew up hearing my parents hollering at the TV.”
Pete Buttigieg (1982) American politician
2 December 2004
Rhodes Scholars announced
Ken Gewertz
The Harvard Gazette
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2004/12/rhodes-scholars-announced-2/
2004
Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004) Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator
"They Will Place There Telescreens" (1964), trans. Czesŀaw Miŀosz
Bobo's Metamorphosis (1965)
“Corpus Bones! I utterly loathe my life.”
Karen Cushman book Catherine, Called Birdy
Source: Catherine, Called Birdy