Drowned

Famous quotes containing the word drowned:

    “the thing I came for:
    the wreck and not the story of the wreck
    the thing itself and not the myth
    the drowned face always staring
    toward the sun”
    —Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)

    “The sea called
    you faced the estuary,
    you were drowned as the tide passed.
    I am glad of this
    at least you have escaped.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “Know how to live within yourself: there is in your soul a whole world of mysterious and enchanted thoughts; they will be drowned by the noise without; daylight will drive them away: listen to their singing and be silent.”
    —Fyodor Tyutchev (1803–1873)