Long Distance Boomerangs

Famous quotes containing the words long and/or distance:

“Papooses crying on the wind’s long mane
Screamed red skin dynasties that fled the brain,”
—Hart Crane (1899–1932)

“Small, black, as flies hanging in heat, the Boys,
Until the distance throws them forth, their hum
Bulges to thunder held by calf and thigh.”
—Thom Gunn (b. 1929)