Rises

Famous quotes containing the word rises:

“What is this conversation, now secular,
A speech not mine yet speaking for me in
The heaving jelly of my tribal air?
It rises in the throat, it climbs the tongue,
It perches there for secret tutelage....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)

“When she rises in the morning
I linger to watch her;”
—D.H. (David Herbert)

“When virtue rises one foot, the devil rises ten.”
—Chinese proverb.