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Famous quotes containing the word armored:

    “The origin of storms is not in clouds,
    our lightning strikes when the earth rises,
    spillways free authentic power:
    dead John Brown’s body walking from a tunnel
    to break the armored and concluded mind.”
    —Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980)

    “The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.”
    —Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)

    “Another armored animal—scale
    lapping scale with spruce-cone regularity until they
    form the uninterrupted central
    tail-row!”
    —Marianne Moore (1887–1972)