Black Hawk County

Famous quotes containing the words black, hawk and/or county:

    “there’s a kind of lust feeds on itself
    Unspoken to, unspeaking; subterranean
    As a black river full of eyeless fish
    Heavy with spawn; with a passion for time
    Longer than the arteries of a cave.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “He will not go,
    But wait through fish scale, shale dust, bone
    of hawk and marmot,
    caught leaves in ice,
    Til flung on a new net of atoms:”
    —Gary Snyder (b. 1930)

    “In the county there are thirty-seven churches
    and no butcher shop. This could be taken
    as a matter of all form and no content.”
    —Maxine Kumin (b. 1925)