Wail

Famous quotes containing the word wail:

“Wise men ne’er sit and wail their woes,
But presently prevent the ways to wail.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“See spring is gone,
ah wail, ah wail in vain,
for spring is dead.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf. We must somehow take a wider view, look at the whole landscape, really see it, and describe what’s going on here. Then we can at least wail the right question into the swaddling band of darkness, or, if it comes to that, choir the proper praise.”
—Annie Dillard (b. 1945)