Pit

Famous quotes containing the word pit:

    “the hind
    stepped down

    into the pit of
    the empty
    flowerpot”
    —William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)

    “Come gather round me players all:
    Come praise Nineteen-Sixteen,
    Those from the pit and gallery
    Or from the painted scene
    That fought in the Post Office
    Or round the City Hall....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “It’s well
    If God who holds you to the pit of hell,
    Much as one holds a spider, will destroy,
    Baffle and dissipate your soul.”
    —Robert Lowell (1917–1977)