Voices

Famous quotes containing the word voices:

“Already the new-born children interpret love
In the voices of mothers.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, as sand eddies in a whirlwind.”
—Dante Alighieri (1265–1321)

“the bone dry voices of the peepers
as they throb like advertisements.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)