Slow Fading

Famous quotes containing the words slow and/or fading:

“O you sand,
this is my command,
drown all men in slow breathless suffocation
then they may understand.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“Last night
as if death had lit a pale light
in your flesh, your flesh
was cold to my touch, or not cold
but cool, cooling, as if the last traces
of warmth were still fading in you.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)