Famous quotes containing the word describe:
“How feeble is all language to describe the horrors we inflict upon these wretches, whom we mason up in the cells of our prisons, and condemn to perpetual solitude in the very heart of our population.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“Who shall describe the inexpressable tenderness and immortal life of the grim forest, where Nature, though it be midwinter, is ever in her spring, where the moss-grown and decaying trees are not old, but seem to enjoy a perpetual youth.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Were he not gone,
The woodchuck could say whether its like his
Long sleep, as I describe its coming on,
Or just some human sleep.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)