Surround

Famous quotes containing the word surround:

“Rivers of wings surround us and vast tribulation.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.”
—Jean Cocteau (1889–1963)

“salamanders in the flame,
heraldic wings surround the name
English from Englisc from
Engle, Angle
from the Angles who settled
in Briton.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)