Famous quotes containing the words mercy and/or west:
“It may be a mercy the dark closes round us
So broodingly soon in every direction.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“There are acacias, a graceful species amusingly devitalized by sentimentality, this kind drooping its leaves with the grace of a young widow bowed in controllable grief, this one obscuring them with a smooth silver as of placid tears. They please, like the minor French novelists of the eighteenth century, by suggesting a universe in which nothing cuts deep.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)