Task Waits

Famous quotes containing the words task and/or waits:

“Here is what sometimes happened to me: after spending the first part of the night at my desk—that part when night trudges heavily uphill—I would emerge from the trance of my task at the exact moment when night had reached the summit and was teetering on that crest, ready to roll down into the haze of dawn....”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

“Death’s a sad bone; bruised, you’d say,

and yet she waits for me, year after year,”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)