Calm

Famous quotes containing the word calm:

“There was calm rapture in the way she spoke
Perhaps I would get over the way the joke
Always turned against me, in the end.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“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)

“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)