Venus

   In youth, before I waxe'  d old, The blind boy,Venus' baby, For want of cunning made me bold, In bitter hive to grope for honey.

—Spenser, Edmund

   Yo persigo una forma que no encuentra mi estilo, boto¤  n de pensamiento que busca ser la rosa; se anuncia con un beso que en mis labios se posa al abrazo imposible de laVenus de Milo. I seek a form that my style cannot discover, a bud of thought that wants to be a rose; it is heralded by a kiss that is placed on my lips in the impossible embrace of theVenus de Milo.

—Dar|¤  o, Rube¤  n pseudonym of Fe¤  lixRube¤  nGarc|¤a Sarmiento

For an actress to be a success she must have the face of Venus, the brains of Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, thememoryof Macaulay, thefigure of Juno, and thehide of a rhinoceros.

—Barrymore, Ethel

  So lovely fair was Hero,Venus'nun, As Nature wept, thinking she was undone.

—Marlowe, Christopher

Lady Venus on the settee of the horsehair sea!

—Sitwell, Dame Edith Louisa

   Adding sound tomovies would be like putting lipstickon theVenus de Milo.

—Pickford, Mary originally  Gladys Mary Smith

Fairest Isle, all isles excelling, Seat of pleasures, and of loves; Venus here will choose her dwelling, And forsake her Cyprian groves. 291

—Dryden,John

WhereVenus in her naked glory strove To please the careless and disdainful eyes Of proud Adonis.

—Marlowe, Christopher

Venus, take my votive glass; Since I am not what I was, What from this day I shall be Venus never let me see.

—Prior, Matthew