Gather

Famous quotes containing the word gather:

“Rather,
they gather the blue
objects of the world
and construct from them

a nest—”
—James Tate (b. 1943)

“Unloved, that beech will gather brown,
This maple burn itself away;

Unloved, the sun-flower, shining fair,
Ray round with flames her disk of seed,
And many a rose-carnation feed
With summer spice the humming air;”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

“For Occupation—This—
The spreading wide my narrow Hands
To gather Paradise—”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)