Flood Plain

Famous quotes containing the words flood and/or plain:

    Hearing the low sound
    of a cloud scattering rain
    at midnight
    and thinking for an eternity
    on his absent young wife,
    a traveller heaved a sigh
    and with a flood of tears
    howled the whole night long.
    Now, villagers won’t let him stay
    in their place anymore.
    Amaru (c. seventh century A.D.)

    How people used to meet!
    starved, intense, the old
    Christmas gifts saved up till spring,
    and the old plain words,
    Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)