Nervous Sleep

Famous quotes containing the words nervous and/or sleep:

    “He was the finest of our happy men;
    He had all joys, he never thought of death;
    He fiddled sometimes with his mind, and then
    Shook off the tremor like a nervous wren....”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “Was it for this the clay grew tall?
    MO what made fatuous sunbeams toil
    To break earth’s sleep at all?”
    —Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)