Dead

Famous quotes containing the word dead:

“The comfortable smell of friendly fingers,
Hair’s fragrance, and the musty reek that lingers
About dead leaves and last year’s ferns. . . .”
—Rupert Brooke (1887–1915)

“Swimmer of noonday, lean for the perfect dive
To the dead Mother’s face, whose subtile down
You had not seen take amber light alive.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)

“So up and down I sow them
For lads like me to find,
When I shall lie below them,
A dead man out of mind.”
—A.E. (Alfred Edward)