Hypotaxis Poetry Quotes & Sayings

What women say to lovers, you'll agree, One writes on running water or on air. — Catullus

The Devil was sick - the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he — Francois Rabelais

How do you say a thing at all, at the end of the day? How do you say what's in your mind? And as soon as you say what you actually have in mind, it's wrong, isn't it? — Ciaran Carson

The point is [ ... ] that you never know whether you've lost until you've lost. Anything can happen. — David Gemmell

What makes you a real girl or boy is that no one laughs at you. If you are imitation or unreal, the rules give you a right to exist provided you do what the real ones or brutes say. What makes you into me or Charles Morgan is that the rules allow all the girls to be better than me and all the boys better than Charles Morgan. — Diana Wynne Jones

I've been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I'm immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but I'm a very hard-headed person. — Barbara Mertz