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)

    The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter, and is about as ample at one season as at another. It is as well for cheerfulness as for warmth and dryness.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)