Drifts

Famous quotes containing the word drifts:

    Just as much for us that sobbing dirge of Nature,
    Just as much whence we come that blare of the cloud-trumpets,
    We, capricious, brought hither we know not whence, spread out before you,
    You up there walking or sitting,
    Whoever you are, we too lie in drifts at your feet.
    Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

    I could not follow your wishes, but I know
    If they assuaged you
    It would not be crying in this dark, your sorrow,
    It would not be crying, so
    That my own heart drifts and cries, having no death
    Because of the darkness,
    Having only your grief under my mouth
    Because of the darkness.
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    But I was trying to tell you about a strange thing
    That happened to me, but this is no way to tell about it,
    By making it truly happen. It drifts away in fragments.
    And one is left sitting in the yard
    To try to write poetry
    Using what Wyatt and Surrey left around....
    John Ashbery (b. 1927)