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)

    “The things that were coming to be talked about
    Have come and gone and are still remembered
    As being recent. There is a grain of curiosity
    At the base of some new thing, that unrolls
    Its question mark like a new wave on the shore.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)