Lonely Shepherd

Famous quotes containing the words lonely and/or shepherd:

    “The poem is lonely. It is lonely and en route. Its author stays with it. Does this very fact not place the poem already here, at its inception, in the encounter, in the mystery of encounter?”
    —Paul Celan [Paul Antschel] (1920–1970)

    “The shepherd is the brain behind the dog’s brain,
    But his control of dog, like dog’s of sheep
    Is never absolute—that’s the beauty of it.”
    —Cecil Day Lewis (1904–1972)