Stays

Famous quotes containing the word stays:

“The poem is lonely. It is lonely and en route. Its author stays with it. Does this very fact not place the poem already here, at its inception, in the encounter, in the mystery of encounter?”
—Paul Celan [Paul Antschel] (1920–1970)

“Home is so sad. It stays as it was left,
Shaped to the comfort of the last to go
As if to win them back.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“What stays with you latest and deepest? of curious panics,
Of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest
remains?”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)