Pigeons

Famous quotes containing the word pigeons:

“I know that Quiet
Wanders laughing and eating her wild heart
Among pigeons and bees, while the Great Archer,
Who but awaits His hour to shoot, still hangs
A cloudy quiver over Pairc-na-lee.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“[Paris] is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)

“On shallow slates the pigeons shift together,
Backing against a thin rain from the west....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)