Wing Coverts

Famous quotes containing the words wing and/or coverts:

    “the uncomfortable angels that rot
    On the slabs, a wing chipped here, an arm there:
    The brute curiosity of an angel’s stare
    Turns you, like them, to stone....”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “On short, still days
    At the shut of the year
    We search the pathways
    Where the coverts were.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)