Drowned

Famous quotes containing the word drowned:

    Jaques. I was seeking for a fool when I found you.
    Orlando. He is drowned in the brook; look but in, and you
    shall see him.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    he changed and ran
    Through many shapes; I lunged at the smooth throat
    Of a great eel; it changed, and I but smote
    A fir-tree roaring in its leafless top;
    And thereupon I drew the livid chop
    Of a drowned dripping body to my breast....
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    Someone else drowned in that lash-wide stare,
    And me supposed to be ignorant,
    Or find it funny, or not to care....
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)