Dried

Famous quotes containing the word dried:

“corolla of bleary spikes pushed down and broken like a battered
crown, seeds fallen out of its face, soon-to-be- toothless mouth of
sunny air, sunrays obliterated on its hairy head like a dried wire
spiderweb,”
—Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)

“God went out of me
as if the sea dried up like sandpaper,
as if the sun became a latrine.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“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)