Overflows

Famous quotes containing the word overflows:

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

    “Surely among a rich man’s flowering lawns,
    Amid the rustle of his planted hills,
    Life overflows without ambitious pains;
    And rains down life until the basin spills,
    And mounts more dizzy high the more it rains
    As though to choose whatever shape it wills....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

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