Poison Gas

Famous quotes containing the words poison and/or gas:

“My heart pumps yet the poison draught of you.”
—William Empson (1906–1984)

“Shielded, what sorts of life are stirring yet:
Legs lagged like drains, slippers soft as fungus,
The gas and grate, the old cold sour grey bed.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)