Thought Screens

Famous quotes containing the words thought and/or screens:

    “Alone and alone nine nights I lay
    Between two bushes under the rain;
    I thought to have whistled her down that way,
    I whistled and whistled and whistled in vain.
    Oro, oro!
    To-morrow night I will break down the door.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “At length to hospital
    This man was limited,
    Where screens leant on the wall
    And idle headphones hung.
    Since he would soon be dead
    They let his wife come along
    And pour out tea, each day.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)