Cat Stevens/early Life 1948-1965

Famous quotes containing the words cat, stevens, early and/or life:

    When a cat cries over a rat, it’s a case of false compassion.
    Chinese proverb.

    What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one’s meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    When first we faced, and touching showed
    How well we knew the early moves ...
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    They are girls. Green girls.
    Death and life is their daily work.
    Death seams up and down the leaf.
    I call the leaves my death girls.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)