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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— 1885 Letter to Robert Bridges,1 Sep. Collected in C C Abbott (ed) The Correspondence of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Robert Bridges (1935).
Birds build but not I build; no, but strain, Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes. Mine,O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.
gerard manley hopkins— 'Thou art indeed just, Lord' (1889)
But from the first 'twas Peter's drift To be a kind of moral eunuch, He touched the hem of Nature's shift, Felt faintand never dared uplift The closest, all-concealing tunic.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— 1819 'Peter Bell theThird', pt.4, stanza11.
The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscriberesponsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages. See Baldwin 54:46.
SirTom originally Tom Straussler Stoppard— 1966 Lord Malquist and Mr Moon, pt.6.
Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.
— New York Times, 7 October 1962
It kills me to be time’s eunuch and never to beget.
gerard manley hopkins— Letter to Robert Bridges (September 1, 1885)
The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.
tom stoppard— Ch. 6: An Honourable DeathThis is a reference to a quote of Rudyard Kipling, "Power without responsibility — the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages," which became widely known after being quoted by prime minister Stanley Baldwin in a speech of 1931-03-17.
Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.
— New York Times, 7 October 1962
