Drum Machine Called

Famous quotes containing the words drum, machine and/or called:

    “Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note,
    As his corse to the rampart we hurried;”
    —Charles Wolfe (1791–1823)

    “I brush my hair,
    waiting in the pain machine for my bones to get hard,
    for the soft, soft bones that were laid apart
    and were screwed together. They will knit.
    And the other corpse, the fractured heart,
    I feed it piecemeal, little chalice. I’m good to it.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “When
    Sir
    Beelzebub called for his syllabub in the hotel in Hell
    Where Proserpine first fell,”
    —Dame Edith Sitwell (1887–1964)