Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) English statesman and poet
Part ii, canto vii.
Lucile (1860)
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) English statesman and poet
Part ii, canto vii.
Lucile (1860)
Billy Graham (wrestler) (1943–2023) American professional wrestler, american football player, bodybuilder
Billy Graham, Tangled Ropes: Superstar Billy Graham (2006)
“He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.”
Charles Churchill (satirist) (1731–1764) British poet
The Rosciad (1761), line 322
“He that sings a lasting song
Thinks in a marrow-bone.”
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
A Prayer For Old Age http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1423/, st. 1. <br class="br">A Full Moon in March (1935) <br class="br">Context: God guard me from those thoughts men think<br>In the mind alone;<br>He that sings a lasting song<br>Thinks in a marrow-bone.
Willa Cather (1873–1947) American writer and novelist
16 September 1902
Source: Willa Cather in Europe (1956), Ch. 14
“He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.”
Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude
Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude
“He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all”
Richard Bach book Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Source: Jonathan Livingston Seagull
“Rattle his bones over the stones!
He's only a pauper, whom nobody owns!”
Thomas Noel (poet) (1799–1861) English poet
The Pauper's Ride, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“God don't lie…. And these are his words…. He speaks in stones and trees, the bones of things.”
Cormac McCarthy book Blood Meridian
Source: Blood Meridian (1985), Chapter IX, Judge Holden
“Who is he who will affirm that there must be a web of flesh and bone to hold the shape of love?”
William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer
"Beyond" (1933)