Ransom Note

Famous quotes containing the words ransom and/or note:

    For even within his tent she accomplished his derision;
    She loosed one veil and another, standing unafraid;
    And he perished.
    —John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)

    And songs climb out of the flames of the near campfires,
    Pale, pastel things exquisite in their frailness
    With a note or two to indicate it isn’t lost,
    On them at least. The songs decorate our notion of the world
    And mark its limits, like a frieze of soap-bubbles.
    John Ashbery (b. 1927)