Ah, ah, thy beauty! like a beast it bites,
Stings like an adder, like an arrow smites.
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"Anactoria", line 115.Algernon Charles Swinburne
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The world is a nettle; disturb it, it stings.
Grasp it firmly, it stings not.Robert Bulwer-Lytton
I thought of your beauty, and this arrow,
Made out of a wild thought, is in my marrow.
There's no man may look upon her, no man,
As when newly grown to be a woman,
Tall and noble but with face and bosom
Delicate in colour as apple blossom.
This beauty's kinder, yet for a reason
I could weep that the old is out of season.William Butler Yeats
Twas Beauty that killed the beast!
Edgar Wallace
What a man is is an arrow into the future and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.
Sylvia Plath
Rome is the Great Beast of atheism and materialism, adoring nothing but itself. Israel is the Great Beast of religion. Neither one nor the other is likable. The Great Beast is always repulsive [p. 393]
Simone Weil
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