Faced Storm Petrel

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

    “The sea called
    you faced the estuary,
    you were drowned as the tide passed.
    I am glad of this
    at least you have escaped.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “And true, they are hurling spittle, rock,
    Garbage and fruit in Little Rock.
    And I saw coiling storm a-writhe
    On bright madonnas. And a scythe
    Of men harassing brownish girls.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “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)