Heavy Swells

Famous quotes containing the words heavy and/or swells:

    “One story recounts that a Tennessean, after a single day in the then almost impenetrable tangle of cypress, briars, and canebreaks, pestered by myriads of mosquitoes, and bogged in the heavy gumbo mud, declared: “Arkansas is not part of the world for which Jesus Christ died—I want none of it.””
    —Administration in the State of Arka, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “the pomp
    Of pain swells like the Indies, or a plum”
    —Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989)