Black Hawk County

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

    “... the whole day to live through,
    steadfast, deep, interior.
    After the death,
    after the black of black,
    this lightness
    not to die, not die....”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    ““What tumbling cloud did you cleave,
    Yellow-eyed hawk of the mind,
    Last evening? that I, who had sat
    Dumbfounded before a knave,
    Should give to my friend
    A pretence of wit.””
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Hold hard, my county darlings, for a hawk descends,
    Golden Glamorgan straightens, to the falling birds.
    Your sport is summer as the spring runs angrily.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)