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)

    “Dead of a dark thing, John Holmes, you’ve been lost
    in the college chapel, mourned as father and teacher,
    mourned with piety and grace under the University Cross.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “One cannot spend one’s time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)