Dire Straits Mark

Famous quotes containing the words dire, straits and/or mark:

    “Speak, then, my Beauty, to this dire putrescence,
    To the worm that shall kiss your proud estate,
    That I have kept the divine form and the essence
    Of my festered loves inviolate!”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “Yes! in sea of life enisled,
    With echoing straits between us thrown,
    Dotting the shoreless watery wild,
    We mortal millions live alone.”
    —Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)

    “Love’s mysteries in souls do grow,
    But yet the body is his book.
    And if some lover, such as we,
    Have heard this dialogue of one,
    Let him still mark us, he shall see
    Small change, when we’re to bodies gone.””
    —John Donne (1572–1631)