Seul le rythme provoque le court-circuit poe¤  tique et transmue le cuivre en or, la parole en verbe. Only rhythm brings about a poetic short-circuit and transforms the copper into gold, the words into life.

-Senghor, Le¤  opold Se¤  dar
  EŁ  thiopiques, postface.

True Love in this differs from gold and clay, That to divide is not to take away.

-Shelley, Percy Bysshe
  'Epipsychidion', l.160^1.

His iron coat all overgrown with rust, Was underneath envelope'  d with gold, Whose glistering gloss darkened with filthy dust, Well yet appeare'  d, to have been of old A work of rich entail, and curious mold, Woven with antics and wild imagery.

-Spenser, Edmund
  Of Mammon.The Faerie Queen, bk.2, canto 7, stanza 4.

  Yet is that glass so gay, that it can blind The wisest sight, to think gold that is brass.

-Spenser, Edmund
  Of the mirror of fashion. The Faerie Queen, bk.6, proem, stanza 5.

Trusty, dusky, vivid, true, With eyes of gold and bramble-dew, Steel-true and blade-straight, The great artificer Made my mate.

-Stevenson, Robert Louis
  Songs ofTravel (published1896),'MyWife'.

Nature's scheme of colour in Australia isgold and blue.

-Streeton, SirArthur Ernest
Quoted inWilliam MooreThe Story of Australian Art (1934), vol.1.

There lived a singer in France of old By the tideless dolorous midland sea. In a land of sand and ruin and gold There shone one woman, and none but she.

-Swinburne, Algernon Charles
  Poems and Ballads,'TheTriumph ofTime'.

Ring out the want, the care, the sin, The faithless coldness of the times; Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes, But ring the fuller minstrel in. Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land; 844 Ring in the Christ that is to be.

-Tennyson
  In Memoriam A.H.H., canto106, l.17^32.

From this foul drain the greatest stream of human industry flows out to fertilize the whole world. From this filthy sewer pure gold flows. Here humanity attains its most complete development and its most brutish, here civilizationworks its miracles and civilized man isturned almost into a savage.

-Tocqueville, Alexis Charles Henri Cle¤  rel de
  Of Manchester. Journal entry, 2 Jul. Journeys to England and Ireland (translatedby George Lawrence andJPMayer,1958).

Seethat gold Cadillac down the street? That's the color I want those handrails.Gold.Cadillac Gold. Not yellow like a daisy.

-Trump, Donald
Of the handrails in Manhattan'sTrumpTower. Quoted by Paul Trachtman in the Smithsonian, Mar1995, reviewing Alexander TherouxThe Primary Colors.

'Beauty' is a currency like the gold standard. Like any economy it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in theWest it isthe last, best belief systemthat keeps male domination intact.

-Wolf, Naomi
  The Beauty Myth, ch.1,'The Beauty Myth'.

Givea manthesecure possessionof a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him a nine years' lease on a garden, and he will convert it into a desert† The magic ofturns sand to gold.

-Young, Arthur
PROPERTY1787  Journal entries, 30 Jul and 7 Nov, published in Travels in France and Italy (1794).