One

Famous quotes containing the word one:

“To these men
The landscape is an armory of powers,
Which, one by one, they know how to draw and use.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“What is the waiting head doing? It looks the same.
Will it lean forward as I turn to go?
I think I can hear it call to me below
but no one came no one came.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“One by one they appear in
the darkness: a few friends, and
a few with historical
names. How late they start to shine!
but before they fade they stand
perfectly embodied,”
—Thom Gunn (b. 1929)