waved my nude arms at villages going by,
learning the last bright routes, survivor
where your flames still bite my thigh
and my ribs crack where your wheels wind.
A woman like that is not ashamed to die.
I have been her kind.
2. Of Man's First Disobedience and the Fruit
Of that Forbidden Tree whose mortal taste
Brought Death into the World and all our woe,
With loss of Eden, till one greater man
Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat
The first is from a short poem called "Her Kind", by the so-called confessional American poetess Anne Sexton. (I actually had to go googling to find that one!
)The second, like you said, was a sinch. It's the first stanza of the epic religious poem Paradise Lost, which comes before Paradise Regained, both by the 17th century English poet and essayist John Milton.
[edit:] And another thing (just to annoy everyone), Daffi's signature quote is from the General Prologue of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, and in the original Middle English. I've actually read the whole thing (in Middle English no less) just for personal gratification, and I'm not even going to be an English Lit. major or minor! I guess that means I'm a geek...
