Famous quotes containing the word ebb:
“I feel staled,
Stupefied, by inaction and, as light
Begins to ebb outside, by fear; I set
So much on this Assumption. Now it’s failed.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow
Claspest the limits of mortality,
And sick of prey, yet howling on for more,
Vomitest thy wrecks on its inhospitable shore;”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
“You are now
In London, that great sea, whose ebb and flow
At once is deaf and loud, and on the shore
Vomits its wrecks, and still howls on for more.
Yet in its depth what treasures!”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)