Famous quotes containing the word coming:
“... The grave and my calm body are shut to your coming as stone,
And the endless beginning of prodigies suffers open.”
—Dylan Thomas (19141953)
“A country is strong which consists of wealthy families, every member of whom is interested in defending a common treasure; it is weak when composed of scattered individuals, to whom it matters little whether they obey seven or one, a Russian or a Corsican, so long as each keeps his own plot of land, blind in their wretched egotism, to the fact that the day is coming when this too will be torn from them.”
—HonorĂ© De Balzac (17991850)
“The distance that the dead have gone
Does not at first appear
Their coming back seems possible
For many an ardent year.”
—Emily Dickinson (18301886)
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