Upper Black Eddy

Famous quotes containing the words upper, black and/or eddy:

    “Surely you wouldn’t grudge the poor old man
    Some humble way to save his self-respect.
    He added, if you really care to know,
    He meant to clear the upper pasture, too.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “February is a suitable month for dying. Everything around is dead, the trees black and frozen so that the appearance of green shoots two months hence seems preposterous, the ground hard and cold, the snow dirty, the winter hateful, hanging on too long.”
    —Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)

    ““... A nation has to take its natural course
    Of Progress round and round in circles
    From King to Mob to King to Mob to King
    Until the eddy of it eddies out.””
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)