Snails Lay Eggs

Famous quotes containing the words snails, lay and/or eggs:

    “little snails at the back
    of the knee building bon-
    fires ...”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “Ah, but to play man number one,
    To drive the dagger in his heart,
    To lay his brain upon the board
    And pick the acrid colors out,
    To nail his thought across the door,
    Its wings spread wide to rain and snow,
    To strike his living hi and ho....”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “Nothing is so beautiful as spring—
    When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;
    Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush
    Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring
    The ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.”
    —Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)