Coils Wound

Famous quotes containing the words coils and/or wound:

“Squalor spreads its hideous length
through the carts and the asses’ feet,
squalor coils and reopens
and creeps under barrow
and heap of refuse....”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“The history of a soldier’s wound beguiles the pain of it.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)