Power and conflict quotes

• spits like a tamed cat.Turned savage
• Marks of weakness,marks of woe
• Runs in blood down palace walls.
• How the youthfull harlots curse
• In every cry of every man,

  In every infants cry of fear,

  In every voice, in every ban,
• I am haunted by their ghosts
• Nothing beside remains.Round the decay
• And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command
• The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed;
• And troubled pleasure,
• Went heaving through the water like a swan;
• The horizon bound, a huge peak, black and huge,
• There hung a darkness,call it solitude Or blank desertion.
• And measured motion like a living thing, Strode after me.
• Small circles glittered idly in the moon, Until they melted all into one track Of sparkling light
• the faint Half-flush that dies along her throat’:
• too soon made glad, Too easily impressed;
• Looking as if she were alive.
• E’en then would be some stooping;and I choose Never to stoop.
• Notice Neptune, though, Taming a sea-horse, through a rarity,Which clause of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me!
• Into the jaws of Death,

  Into the mouth of Hell
• Volley’d and thunder’d;

  Storm’d at with shot and shell
• When can their glory fade?

  O the wild charge they made!
• Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us…
• mad gusts tugging on the wire, Like twitching agonies of men among its brambles.
• attacks once more in ranks on shivering ranks of grey ,
• Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence.
• fingering stealth come feeling for our faces
• Slowly our ghosts drag home:
• Shrivelling many hands,puckering foreheads crisp.
• All their eyes are ice,
• bombarded by the empty air.
• This wizened Earth has never troubled us
• Blast: you know what I mean-
• Forgetting that it pummels your house too.
• And strafes invisibly. Space is a salvo
• a samurai sword in the cockpit, a shaven head full of powerful incantations
• he must have looked far down at the little fishing boats strung out like bunting
• arcing in swathes like a huge flag
• shoals of fished flashing silver as their bellies swivelled towards the sun