Barn Swallows

Famous quotes containing the words barn and/or swallows:

    “She is watching her country lose its evoked master shape watching
    it lose
    And gain get back its houses and peoples watching it bring up
    Its local lights single homes lamps on barn roofs”
    —James Dickey (b. 1923)

    “At a wavering instant the swallows gave way to bats
    By the Ponte Vecchio . . .
    Changing guard.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)