Famous quotes containing the word perish:
“O poplar, you are great
among the hill-stones,
while I perish on the path
among the crevices of the rocks.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“Only when manhood is dead—and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it—only then will we know what it is to be free.”
—Andrea Dworkin (b. 1946)
“So gentle and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers.”
—William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)