Wire Breaks

Famous quotes containing the words wire and/or breaks:

    God, I am caught in a snare!
    I know not what fine wire is round my throat;
    I only know I let him finger there
    My pulse of life, and let him nose like a stoat
    Who sniffs with joy before he drinks the blood.
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    At it in its familiar twang: “My friend,
    Cut your own throat. Cut your own throat. Now! Now!”
    September twenty-second, Sir, the bough
    Cracks with the unpicked apples, and at dawn
    The small-mouth bass breaks water, gorged with spawn.
    Robert Lowell (1917–1977)