Famous quotes containing the words carrion comfort, carrion and/or comfort:
“Not, I’ll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee:”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)
“So every journey that I make
Leads me, as in the story he was led,
To some new ambush, to some fresh mistake:
So every journey I begin foretells
A weariness of daybreak, spread
With carrion kisses, carrion farewells.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“Angels’ song, comforting
as the comfort of Christ
When he spake tenderly
to his sorrowful flock:”
—Robert Bridges (1844–1930)