Running Rails

Famous quotes containing the words running and/or rails:

    “Tattoo-shops, consulates, grim head-scarfed wives;
    And out beyond its mortgaged half-built edges
    Fast-shadowed wheat-fields, running high as hedges,
    Isolate villages, where removed lives
    Loneliness clarifies. Here silence stands
    Like heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken,
    Hidden weeds flower....”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “The train’s gone, the rails are cold.”
    —Russian saying, trans. by Vladimir Ivanovich Shlyakov (1993)