Timely

Famous quotes containing the word timely:

“Or would interior time, that could delay
The sentence chronic with the last assize,
Start running backwards with its timely lies,
I might have time to live the love I say....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)

“Rise.
Let us combine. There are no magics or elves
Or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must
Wizard a track through our own screaming weed.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

“To me alone there came a thought of grief;
A timely utterance gave that thought relief,
And I again am strong:”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)