Stones

Famous quotes containing the word stones:

“The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.”
—James Fenton (b. 1949)

“I have seen it over and over, the same sea, the same,
slightly, indifferently swinging above the stones,
icily free above the stones,
above the stones and then the world.”
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)

“Red lips are not so red As the stained stones kissed by the English dead.”
—Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)