Mud Snails

Famous quotes containing the words mud and/or snails:

“To-night, His frost will fasten on this mud and us,
Shriveling many hands, puckering foreheads crisp.
The burying-party, picks and shovels in their shaking grasp,
Pause over half-known faces. All their eyes are ice,
But nothing happens.”
—Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)

“little snails at the back
of the knee building bon-
fires ...”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)