Dead

Famous quotes containing the word dead:

“Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

“With this pen I take in hand my selves
and with these dead disciples I will grapple.
Though rain curses the window
let the poem be made.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“Does anyone remember?
Everyone still alive. And some dead ones.”
—David Wagoner (b. 1926)