Waiting

Famous quotes containing the word waiting:

“Maud Gonne at Howth station waiting a train,
Pallas Athena in that straight back and arrogant head:
All the Olympians; a thing never known again.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“What are we waiting for, gathered in the market-place?
The barbarians are to arrive today.”
—Constantine Cavafy (1863–1933)

“And they wonder, as waiting the long years through
In the dust of that little chair,
What has become of our Little Boy Blue,
Since he kissed them and put them there.”
—Eugene Field (1850–1895)