Kubla Khanin a sentence
- In Xanadu did Kubla Khan, A stately pleasure-dome decree.† (source)
- So you think of yourself as Kublai Khan?† (source)
- Kubla Khan was the grandson of Genghis Khan.
- Eastern themes couldn't miss, and surely everyone had been made to memorize "Kubla Khan" at school, so even lawyers — even doctors — even bankers would know what Xanadu was.† (source)
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In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
Winifred had the entire poem typed out and mimeographed and distributed to our committee — to get the ideas percolating, she said — and any suggestions from us were more than welcome, though we knew she had the entire thing mapped out in her head already.† (source)
- Kubla Khan," the benzine ring, Caedmon's song—they all came in the dream.† (source)
- In the pages of a thousand books he saw their portraits: Coleridge at twenty-five, with the loose sensual mouth, gaping idiotically, the vast staring eyes, holding in their opium depths the vision of seas haunted by the albatross, the great white forehead—head mixed of Zeus and the village degenerate; the lean worn head of Caesar, a little thirsty in the flanks; and the dreaming mummy face of Kublai Khan, lit with eyes that flickered with green fires.† (source)