Calm

Famous quotes containing the word calm:

“She by my side
Stared at the Moon; and then I knew he knew.
And then he smiled at her; to him ‘twas funny—
Her calm steel eyes, her earth-old throat of honey!”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)

“Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!”
—Sean O’Casey (1884–1964)

“The truth in a calm world,
In which there is no other meaning, itself

Is calm, itself is summer and night, itself
Is the reader leaning late and reading there.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)