Surround

Famous quotes containing the word surround:

    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)

    But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments to the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    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)