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)
“But is there any comfort to be found?
Man is in love and loves what vanishes,
What more is there to say?”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)