"All the beasts obeyed Noah when he
admitted them into the ark.
All but the unicorn. Confident of his own
Strength, he boasted, "I shall swim."
Uknranian Folktale
"I am the owner of the sphere,
Of the seven stars and the
solar year,
Of Ceasar's hand and Plato's brain.
Of Lord Christ's heart and Shakespeare's strain...."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"...no place is more enchanted than where a unicorn has been born."
Peter S. Beagle
"The shark is killed for its fin
The rhino is killed for its horn
The tiger is killed for its skin
What price the unicorn?"
Anonymous
"It is a noble beast,
a most religious beast...
and it dances in the sun.
W.B. Yeats
fly me home pegasus.