"Antigone" favorite quotes

 "Earth, holy and inexhaustible, is graven

With shining furrows where his plows have gone

Year after year, the timeless labor of stallions. "

"The lithe fish lighting their reaches of dim water,

All are taken, tamed in the net of his mind;

The lion on the hill, the wild horse windy-maned,

Resign to him;"

"Never may the anarchic man find rest at my hearth,

Never be it said that my thoughts are his thoughts."

"Her crying bitterly a broken note or two

For the young ones stolen. Just so, when this girl

Found the bare corpse, and all her love’s work wasted,

She wept, and cried on heaven to damn the hands 340

That had done this thing"

"No more, Ismene.

                        You are alive, but I belong to Death. "

"Drank the sunlight! but now a passionate word 475

And a handful of dust have closed up all its beauty"