Famous quotes containing the words red, bird and/or stadium:
“How red the rose that is the soldiers wound,
The wounds of many soldiers, the wounds of all
The soldiers that have fallen, red in blood,
The soldier of time grown deathless in great size.”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)
“What bird so sings, yet so does wail?
O, tis the ravished nightingale!
Jug, jug, jug, jug, tereu, she cries,
And still her woes at midnight rise.
Brave prick-song! who ist now we hear?
None but the lark so shrill and clear;”
—John Lyly (15531606)
“In their eyes I have seen
the pin men of madness in marathon trim
race round the track of the stadium pupil.”
—Patricia K. Page (b. 1916)
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