Inactivated Fourth Air

Famous quotes containing the words fourth and/or air:

“All night I’ve held your hand,
as if you had
a fourth time faced the kingdom of the mad—
its hackneyed speech, its homicidal eye—
and dragged me home alive. . . .”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

“A slight relax of air where cold was
And water trickles ...”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)