Dried

Famous quotes containing the word dried:

    Some spring the white man came, built him a house, and made a clearing here, letting in the sun, dried up a farm, piled up the old gray stones in fences, cut down the pines around his dwelling, planted orchard seeds brought from the old country, and persuaded the civil apple-tree to blossom next to the wild pine and the juniper, shedding its perfume in the wilderness. Their old stocks still remain.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Darkness; a desire to stretch, to scratch.
    Then has the ? Then is it ? Nudge the thatch,
    Displace the stiffened leaves: look out. How cold,
    How dried a stillness....
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    Sang a bone upon the shore;
    “A child found all a child can lack,
    Whether of pleasure or of rest,
    Upon the abundance of my breast”:
    A bone wave-whitened and dried in the wind.

    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)