High Banked Dirt

Famous quotes containing the words high, banked and/or dirt:

    “Whenever I dove in a breast high shoal,
    Wherever I ramped in the clover quilts,
    Whatsoever I did in the coal-
    Black night, I left my quivering prints.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “The rare original heartsblood goes,
    Spends on the earthen hide, in the folds and wizenings, flows

    In the gutters of the banked and staring eyes.”
    —Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)

    “This mangled, smutted semi-world hacked out
    Of dirt . . . It is not possible for the moon
    To blot this with its dove-winged blendings.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)