False Alarms

Famous quotes containing the words false and/or alarms:

    “I started in to cry and call his name,

    Asking forgiveness of his tongueless head.
    . . . I dreamt the past was never past redeeming:
    But whether this was false or honest dreaming
    I beg death’s pardon now. And mourn the dead.”
    —Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)

    “And we are here as on a darkling plain
    Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
    Where ignorant armies clash by night.”
    —Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)