Mississippi Field Hospital

Famous quotes containing the words mississippi, field and/or hospital:

    ““Where is the Mississippi panorama
    And the girl who played the piano?
    Where are you, Walt?
    The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.”
    —Louis Simpson (b. 1923)

    “She is as in a field a silken tent
    At midday when a sunny summer breeze
    Has dried the dew and all its ropes relent,”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “The sun his hand uncloses like a statue,
    Irrevocably: thereby such light is freed
    That all the dingy hospital of snow
    Dies back to ditches.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)