Constable John Stevens

Famous quotes containing the words constable, john and/or stevens:

    “I do love thee as each flower
    Loves the sun’s life-giving power,
    For, dead, thy breath to life might move me.”
    —Henry Constable (1562–1613)

    “The origin of storms is not in clouds,
    our lightning strikes when the earth rises,
    spillways free authentic power:
    dead John Brown’s body walking from a tunnel
    to break the armored and concluded mind.”
    —Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980)

    “It is poverty’s speech that seeks us out the most.
    It is older than the oldest speech of Rome.
    This is the tragic accent of the scene.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)