Wake

Famous quotes containing the word wake:

“The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can’t wake up.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)

“I don’t want to express alienation. It isn’t what I feel. I’m interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

“I know if I wake up cold,

and go out into the clear spring night,
still dark and precise with stars,
I will feel the wind coming down hard
like his hand, in fever, on my forehead.”
—Stanley Plumly (b. 1939)