Drowned

Famous quotes containing the word drowned:

“Keep out of Chancery.... It’s being ground to bits in a slow mill; it’s being roasted at a slow fire; it’s being stung to death by single bees; it’s being drowned by drops; it’s going mad by grains.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

“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)

“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)