Stalks

Famous quotes containing the word stalks:

“..for a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread, but the wife of another stalks a man’s very life.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 6:26.

“Cut grass lies frail:
Brief is the breath
Mown stalks exhale,”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1985)

“It is deep January. The sky is hard.
The stalks are firmly rooted in ice.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)