Early August

Famous quotes containing the words early and/or august:

“When first we faced, and touching showed
How well we knew the early moves ...”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“Until, on Vinegar Hill, the fatal conclave.
Terraced thousands died, shaking scythes at cannon.
The hillside blushed, soaked in our broken wave.
They buried us without shroud or coffin
And in August the barley grew up out of the grave.”
—Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)