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)

“When the great markets by the sea shut fast
All that calm Sunday that goes on and on:
When even lovers find their peace at last,
And Earth is but a star, that once had shone.”
—James Elroy Flecker (1884–1919)

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