Hopkins Pond

Famous quotes containing the words hopkins and/or pond:

    “What would the world be, once bereft
    Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
    O let them be left, wildness and wet;
    Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.”
    —Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)

    “You cutting the lawn, fixing the machines,
    all this leprous day and then more vodka,
    more soda and the pond forgiving our bodies,
    the pond sucking out the throb.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)