Rock Salt Shells

Famous quotes containing the words rock, salt and/or shells:

    The acorn’s not yet
    Fallen from the tree
    That’s to grow the wood,
    That’s to make the cradle,
    That’s to rock the bairn,
    That’s to grow a man,
    That’s to lay me.
    —Unknown. The Cauld Lad of Hilton or, The Wandering Spectre (l. 2–8)

    All the sea-gods are dead.
    You, Venus, come home
    To your salt maidenhead....
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    Sing there upon the beach
    Till all’s beyond death’s reach,
    And empty shells reply
    That all things flourish.
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)