Plunge

Famous quotes containing the word plunge:

“The mystery of the evening-star brilliant in silence and distance between the downward-surging plunge of the sun and the vast, hollow seething of inpouring night. The magnificence of the watchful morning-star, that watches between the night and the day, the gleaming clue to the two opposites.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)

“O plunge your hands in water, Plunge them in up to the wrist;
Stare, stare in the basin And wonder what you’ve missed.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)

“Loosed betwixt eye and lid, the swimming beams
Of memory, blind school of cuttlefish,
Rise to the air, plunge to the cold streams....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)