Drowned

Famous quotes containing the word drowned:

“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)

“By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap
To pluck bright honor from the pale-faced moon,
Or dive into the bottom of the deep,
Where fathom-line could never touch the ground,
And pluck up drowned honor by the locks.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“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)