Silly Roll Call

Famous quotes containing the words silly, roll and/or call:

    “Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “It was easy to recognize in him the anti-social animus of a born evangelist, but there was also something else—a kind of voluptuous delight in the shabby and preposterous, a perverted aestheticism like that of a latter-day movie or radio fan, a wild will to roll in and snuffle balderdash as a cat rolls in and snuffles catnip.”
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    “What large children we are
    here. All over I grow most tall
    in the best ward. Your business is people,
    you call at the madhouse, an oracular
    eye in our nest.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)