beget quotes

Is there no way to beget In my limbs their former heat? Aeson had (as Poets fain) Baths that made him young again: Find that Medicine (if you can) For your dry-decrepit man: Who would but fain his strength renew, Were it but to pleasure you.

- Robert Herrick
  'To His Mistress'.

   The fine pleasure is not to do a thing but to feel that you could† If I could but get on, if I could but produce a work I should not mind its being buried, silenced, and going no further; but it kills me to be time's eunuch and never to beget.

-Gerard Manley Hopkins
  Letter to Robert Bridges,1 Sep. Collected in C C  Abbott (ed)  The Correspondence of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Robert Bridges (1935).

: Do not let him touch you! It is not true That drunken men cannot beget, And if he touch he must beget And you must bear his murderer. Deaf! Both deaf!

-W(illiam) B(utler) Yeats
OLD MAN1939  Purgatory.