Burton Raffel Quotes

#1. Poetry can change hearts but not the politician's heart.

Marty Rubin

#2. The whole world is out of step, apart from me.

Mark Thomas

#3. Beloved Beowulf, remember how you boasted,
Once, that nothing in the world would ever
Destroy your fame; fight to keep it,
Now, be strong and brave, my noble
King, protecting life and fame
Together. My sword will fight at your side!

Burton Raffel

#4. Call up your vermin to your back, sir, and fall on! The sooner the clash begins, the sooner ye'll taste this steel throughout your vitals.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#5. That struggle was too strong,
hateful and long-lasting, which had come on the people,
dire wrack and ruin - the greatest of night-evils.

Burton Raffel

#6. Finally, at two minutes to three, in the sweltering heat of a Mesopotamian summer afternoon, I crossed the no-man's land into Syria.

William Dalrymple

#7. I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.

Vijender Singh

#8. Fate will unwind as it must!

Burton Raffel

#9. I've never known fear; as a youth I fought/ In endless battles. I am old, now,/ But I will fight again, seek fame still,/ If the dragon hiding in his tower dares/ To face me

Burton Raffel

#10. The dream we were conceived in will reveal a joyful face, and the world we once believed in will shine again in grace.

Michael Jackson

#11. Some of the world's best educators are grandparents.

Charlie W Shedd

#12. We couldn't change anything, and in times of war, people become helpless and vulnerable.

Shannon A. Thompson

#13. I loved coming up with players in scoring position and I had to drive them in.

Willie McCovey

#14. Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real.

Burton Raffel

#15. But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out.

John Gay