Parting

Famous quotes containing the word parting:

“Though her parting dims the day,
Stealing grace from all alive;
Heartily know,
When half-gods go,
The gods arrive.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Good night, good night. Parting is such sweet sorrow
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“I can hear, underground, that sucking and sobbing,
In my veins, in my bones I feel it,—
The small waters seeping upward,
The tight grains parting at last.”
—Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)