Sea Birds

Famous quotes containing the words sea and/or birds:

    Now I am powerless
    to draw back
    for the sea is cyclamen-purple,
    cyclamen-red, colour of the last grapes,
    colour of the purple of the flowers,
    cyclamen-coloured and dark.
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    poems direct as what the birds said,
    hard as a floor, sound as a bench,
    mysterious as the silence when the tailor
    would pause with his needle in the air.
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)