Fallen

Famous quotes containing the word fallen:

“Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“O fallen angel,
the companion within me,
whisper something holy
before you pinch me
into the grave.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“A hunger seized my heart; I read
Of that glad year which once had been,
In those fallen leaves which kept their green,
The noble letters of the dead.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)