Carrion Comfort

Famous quotes containing the words carrion comfort, carrion and/or comfort:

    “Not, I’ll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee:”
    —Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)

    “So every journey that I make
    Leads me, as in the story he was led,
    To some new ambush, to some fresh mistake:
    So every journey I begin foretells
    A weariness of daybreak, spread
    With carrion kisses, carrion farewells.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man’s heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.”
    —Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667)