Idle Stop

Famous quotes containing the words idle and/or stop:

    Some sepulcher, remote, alone,
    Against whose portal she hath thrown,
    In childhood, many an idle stone—
    Some tomb from out whose sounding door
    She ne’er shall force an echo more,
    Thrilling to think, poor child of sin!
    It was the dead who groaned within.
    Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

    And midway
    We meet the disappointed, returning ones, without its
    Being able to stop us in the headlong night
    Toward the nothing of the coast.
    John Ashbery (b. 1927)