Famous quotes containing the words nelson and/or larkin:
“The victors and the vanquished then the storm it tossed and tore,
As hard they strove, those worn-out men, upon that surly shore;
Dead Nelson and his half-dead crew, his foes from near and far,
Were rolled together on the deep that night at Trafalgar!”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
“But it dies hard, that world;
Or, being dead,
Putrescently is pearled....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)