Dried

Famous quotes containing the word dried:

“Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats’ feet over broken glass”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

“Darkness; a desire to stretch, to scratch.
Then has the ? Then is it ? Nudge the thatch,
Displace the stiffened leaves: look out. How cold,
How dried a stillness....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“corolla of bleary spikes pushed down and broken like a battered
crown, seeds fallen out of its face, soon-to-be- toothless mouth of
sunny air, sunrays obliterated on its hairy head like a dried wire
spiderweb,”
—Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)