Overflows

Famous quotes containing the word overflows:

“We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim—objects press around us, filling the mind with their magnitude and with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)

“The hope that suddenly overflows the cesspool?
The love that goes down the drain like spit?”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“Pour away that youth
That overflows the heart
Into hair and mouth....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)