And hence the poet must seek to be essentially anonymous, He must die a little death each morning, He must swallow his toad and study his vomit as Baudelaire studied la charogne of Jeanne Duval.
Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut.
If it will be an intolerable thing to suffer the heat of fire for a year or a day, or an hour, what will it be to suffer ten thousand times more for ever? What if thou wert to suffer Lawrence 's death, to be roasted upon a gridiron; or to be scraped or pricked to death as other martyrs were; or if thou wert to feed upon toads for a year together? If thou couldst not endure such things as these, how wilt thou endure the eternal flames ?
Come back and wake me up. . . . . half past May! (the Toad)
I felt as if I had no control over what I said, as if loathsome, ugly words were waiting inside me like snakes and toads looking for a chance to sneak out before I could stop them.
I do not hate a proud man, as I do hate the engendering of toads.
He was one of the many toads you have to go through to find the prince.
The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth point goes.
A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in the day ahead.
If it is your duty to croak like the toad, then go ahead! And with all your might! Make them hear you!
My first character was Mr. Toad.
The toad has indeed no superior as a destroyer of noxious insects, and he possesses no bad habits and is entirely inoffensive himself, every owner of a garden should treat him with utmost hospitality.
Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad.
Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they're all we have.
A careful observation of Nature will disclose pleasantries of superb irony. She has for instance placed toads close to flowers.
The chief is the chief. He is the eagle who flies high and cannot be touched by the spit of the toad.
Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.
It rained toads the day the White Council came to town.
If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.
I'm sure I've been a toad, one time or another. With bats, weasels, worms. . . I rejoice in the kinship. Even the caterpillar I can love, and the various vermin.
