Damp

Famous quotes containing the word damp:

    Here love’s damp muscle dries and dies,
    Here break a kiss in no love’s quarry.
    Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    If only I could nudge you from this sleep,
    My maimed darling, my skittery pigeon.
    Over this damp grave I speak the words of my love:
    I, with no rights in this matter,
    Neither father nor lover.
    Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)

    Tasting of the sweet damp woods and of the rain one inch above the meadow:

    It was like feasting upon air.
    William Jay Smith (b. 1918)