Wild Billy Childish

Famous quotes containing the words wild, billy and/or childish:

    “It is hard going to the door
    cut so small in the wall where
    the vision which echoes loneliness
    brings a scent of wild flowers in the wood.”
    —Robert Creeley (b. 1926)

    “Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda,
    Who’ll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?
    And he sang as he watched and waited while his billy boiled:
    ‘Who’ll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?’”
    —Andrew Barton Peterson (1864–1941)

    “A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.”
    —Alexander Cockburn (b. 1941)