Clay Court Season

Famous quotes containing the words clay, court and/or season:

    “Was it for this the clay grew tall?
    MO what made fatuous sunbeams toil
    To break earth’s sleep at all?”
    —Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)

    “Rome, like Washington, is small enough, quiet enough, for strong personal intimacies; Rome, like Washington, has its democratic court and its entourage of diplomatic circle; Rome, like Washington, gives you plenty of time and plenty of sunlight. In New York we have annihilated both.”
    —M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)

    “The hour of the waning of love has beset us,
    And weary and worn are our sad souls now;
    Let us part, ere the season of passion forget us,
    With a kiss and a tear on thy drooping brow.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)