Circling

Famous quotes containing the word circling:

“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)

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

“We will not be put off the final goal
We have it hidden in us to attain,
Not though we have to seize the earth by the pole
And, tired of aimless circling in one place,
Steer straight off after something into space.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)