Continuous Local

Famous quotes containing the words continuous and/or local:

“We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of loss, and the more wearing, continuous pain of frustration and failure; and have had moods of unlooked-for release and peace. They have known and watched in themselves and others.”
—Elizabeth Drew (1887–1965)

“The local snivels through the fields:
I sit between felt-hatted mums....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)