Wire Earth Return

Famous quotes containing the words wire, earth and/or return:

    “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)

    “The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and antiquaries chiefly, but living poetry like the leaves of a tree, which precede flowers and fruit,—not a fossil earth, but a living earth; compared with whose great central life all animal and vegetable life is merely parasitic.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Our needs hourly
    Climb and return like angels.
    Unclosing like a hand,
    You give for ever.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)