Calm

Famous quotes containing the word calm:

“What calm catastrophe will yet assuage
This final drouth of penitential tears?”
—Yvor Winters (1900–1968)

“Let the palings of her bed
Be quince and box-wood overlaid
with the scented bark of yew.
That all the wood in blossoming,
May calm her heart and cool her blood
For losing of her maidenhood.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“There is a calm for you where men and women
Unroll the chill precision of moving feet.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)