Famous quotes containing the words constable and/or stevens:
“I did not know that thou wert dead before;
I did not feel the grief I did sustain;
The greater stroke astonisheth the more;
Astonishment takes from us sense of pain.
I stood amazed when others tears begun,
And now begin to weep when they have done.”
—Henry Constable (15621613)
“The sky seemed so small that winter day,
A dirty light on a lifeless world,
Contracted like a withered stick.”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)
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