Stalks

Famous quotes containing the word stalks:

“On the bare upland pasture there had spread
O’ernight ‘twixt mullein stalks a wheel of thread
And straining cables wet with silver dew.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“It is deep January. The sky is hard.
The stalks are firmly rooted in ice.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“Cut grass lies frail:
Brief is the breath
Mown stalks exhale,”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1985)