Volcanic Ash Fall

Famous quotes containing the words volcanic, ash and/or fall:

“Pity the planet, all joy gone
from this sweet volcanic cone;”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

“Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keeps
adjusting the ash heaps;
opening and shutting itself like

an
injured fan.”
—Marianne Moore (1887–1972)

“And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship? Then all things go to decay. Genius leaves the temple to haunt the senate or the market.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)