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)