Slow Cooling

Famous quotes containing the words slow and/or cooling:

“For nations vague as weed,
For nomads among stones,
Small-statured cross-faced tribes
And cobble-close families
In mill-towns on dark mornings
Life is slow dying.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“her in her cooling planet
Revere; do not presume to think her wasted.”
—William Empson (1906–1984)