Severed Head

Famous quotes containing the words severed and/or head:

    It was your severed image that grew sweeter,
    That floated, wing-stiff, focused in the sun
    Along uncertainty and gales of shame
    Blown out before I slept. Now you are one
    I dare not think alive: only a name
    That chimes occasionally, as a belief
    Long since embedded in the static past.
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    putting his hope in certain death, lowering
    his head again to the grass.
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)