Tipping Bucket Rain

Famous quotes containing the words tipping, bucket and/or rain:

    “In what camera do you taste
    Poison, in what darkness set
    Glittering scales and point
    The tipping tongue?”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “She was a charming middle-aged lady with a face like a bucket of mud. I gave her a drink. She was a gal who’d take a drink if she had to knock me down to get the bottle.”
    —John Paxton (1911–1985)

    “... his voice and hands,
    Within whose warm spring rain of loving care
    Each dwells some twenty seconds. Now, dear child,
    What’s wrong, the deep American voice demands,
    And, scarcely pausing, goes into a prayer
    Directing God about this eye, that knee.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)