Lay Speaking

Famous quotes containing the words lay and/or speaking:

“The acorn’s not yet
Fallen from the tree
That’s to grow the wood,
That’s to make the cradle,
That’s to rock the bairn,
That’s to grow a man,
That’s to lay me.”
—Unknown. The Cauld Lad of Hilton or, The Wandering Spectre (l. 2–8)

““A poet is a man speaking to men”:
But I am then a poet, am I not?—”
—John Berryman (1914–1972)