Faced Storm Petrel

Famous quotes containing the words faced, storm and/or petrel:

    There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you’re faced with somebody whose needs won’t be put off.
    Angela Carter (1940–1992)

    Beneath the azure current floweth;
    Above, the golden sunlight glows.
    Rebellious, the storm it wooeth,
    As if the storms could give repose.
    Mikhail Lermontov (1814–1841)

    Through the dark cold and the empty desolation,
    The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters
    Of the petrel and the porpoise. In my end is my beginning.
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)