Famous quotes containing the words sea and/or cliffs:
“Now I am powerless
to draw back
for the sea is cyclamen-purple,
cyclamen-red, colour of the last grapes,
colour of the purple of the flowers,
cyclamen-coloured and dark.”
—Hilda Doolittle (18861961)
“So there stood Matthew Arnold and this girl
With the cliffs of England crumbling away behind them,
And he said to her, Try to be true to me,
And Ill do the same for you, for things are bad
All over, etc., etc.”
—Anthony Hecht (b. 1923)
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