Famous quotes containing the words dark and/or quickening:
“Lies grow dark around us: will
The statue of your beauty walk?”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“With spring the father-sky remakes the world:
The male shower has flowed into the bride,
Earth’s body; then shifted through sky and sea and land
To touch the quickening child in her deep side.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)