Famous quotes containing the words lost, city and/or sand:
“Part way back from Bedlam
I came to my mothers house in Gloucester,
Massachusetts. And this is how I came
to catch at her; and this is how I lost her.
I cannot forgive your suicide, my mother said.
And she never could.”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
“Push, labor, shove,these words of great power in a city like this. Two years must find me with a living and increasing business, or I quit the city and probably the profession.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (18221893)
“But the twelve lie in the sand by the dry rock
Seeing nothingthe sand, the tree, rocks
Without numberand turn away the face
To the minds briefer and more desert place.”
—Allen Tate (18991979)