Swallow

Famous quotes containing the word swallow:

“Now I stand as one upon a rock,
Environed with a wilderness of sea,
Who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave,
Expecting ever when some envious surge
Will in his brinish bowels swallow him.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“So a swallow perpetuated
In dove-gray dusk can be both the end and the exaltation of a new
Beginning, yet forever remain itself....”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions.”
—Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911)