Famous quotes containing the words wears, valley and/or road:
“A worm tells summer better than the clock,
The slugs a living calendar of days;
What shall it tell me if a timeless insect
Says the world wears away?”
—Dylan Thomas (19141953)
“Jugful of milk! It was yours years ago
when I lived in the valley of my bones,
bones dumb in the swamp. Little playthings.”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
“Let the torpid Monk seek heaven comfortless and aloneGOD speed him! For my own part, I fear, I should never so find the way: let me be wise and religiousbut let me be MAN: wherever thy Providence places me, or whatever be the road I take to get to theegive me some companion in my journey, be it only to remark to, How our shadows lengthen as the sun goes down.”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)
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