Rises

Famous quotes containing the word rises:

“I done et so free o’ fish, my stommick rises and falls with the tide.”
—For the State of Florida, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

“Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is still a bird; then it rises above its class and seems to suggest to every winged creature what singing is truly like.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

“I have a nine months’ daughter,
young enough to be my granddaughter.
Like the sun she rises in her flame-flamingo infants’ wear.”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)