Circling

Famous quotes containing the word circling:

    “The singular passion
    Abides its object and consumes desire
    In the circling shadow of its appetite.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “I cannot beat off
    Invincible modes of the sea, hearing:
    Be a man my son by God.
    He turned again
    To the purring jet yellowing the murder story,
    Deaf to the pathos circling in the air.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “It has been proposed that the town should adopt for its coat of arms a field verdant, with the Concord circling nine times round.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)