Common Cuckoos

Famous quotes containing the words common and/or cuckoos:

    “The last Night that She lived
    It was a Common Night
    Except the Dying—this to Us
    Made Nature different”
    —Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

    “Clandestine steps upon imagined stairs
    Climb through the night, because his cuckoos call.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)