Backed Kingfisher

Famous quotes containing the words backed and/or kingfisher:

    “It looked as if
    The shore was lucky in being backed by cliff,
    The cliff in being backed by continent;
    It looked as if a night of dark intent
    Was coming, and not only a night, an age.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “the mud
    Flies from his hunching wings and beak—my heart,
    The blue kingfisher dives on you in fire.”
    —Robert Lowell (1917–1977)