Tight Bound

Famous quotes containing the words tight and/or bound:

    “I can hear, underground, that sucking and sobbing,
    In my veins, in my bones I feel it,—
    The small waters seeping upward,
    The tight grains parting at last.”
    —Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)

    “The night is darkening round me,
    The wild winds coldly blow;
    But a tyrant spell has bound me
    And I cannot, cannot go.”
    —Emily Brontë (1818–1848)