Dies

Famous quotes containing the word dies:

“Memories are hunting horns
Whose sound dies on the wind.”
—Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918)

“In a sense the world dies every time a writer dies, because, if he is any good, he has been a wet nurse to humanity during his entire existence and has held earth close around him, like the little obstetrical toad that goes about with a cluster of eggs attached to his legs.”
—E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)

“But it dies hard, that world;
Or, being dead,
Putrescently is pearled....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)