Sinking

Famous quotes containing the word sinking:

“I dream of a Ledaean body, bent
Above a sinking fire,”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“And this gray spirit yearning in desire
To follow knowledge like a sinking star,
Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

“Eternal Venice sinking by degrees
Into the very water that she lights;”
—Edgar Bowers (b. 1924)