Dead

Famous quotes containing the word dead:

“The comfortable smell of friendly fingers,
Hair’s fragrance, and the musty reek that lingers
About dead leaves and last year’s ferns. . . .”
—Rupert Brooke (1887–1915)

“Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“To girls and wives always alive and fated;
To men and scholars always dead like Greek
And always mistranslated.”
—Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)