Ready

Famous quotes containing the word ready:

“still I’m ready to believe perhaps
some lives
tremble and flare up there, four blocks away ...”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

“He who is ready to despair in solitary peril, plucks up a heart in the presence of another. In a plurality of comrades is much countenance and consolation.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“But that two-handed engine at the door
Stands ready to smite once, and smites no more.”
Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is pass’d”
—John Milton (1608–1674)