Come to me swiftly, carry no trace. Lift me softly, then…

Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.

— Seamus Heaney

Bright youth passes swiftly as a thought.

— Theognis of Megara

“When shrouded meanings and grim intentions are nicely polished up and pokerfaced personae are generously palming off their fantasy constructs, caution is the watchword,…

— Erik Pevernagie

“The day arrived,when myriad teary rivers flow and the muted wind faintly died in his tears—an altar for the beloved one's departure,for sister-hood is…

— Nithin Purple

Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.

— Ovid

It's strange because you - your life goes so swiftly. You look up one day you're a teenager, the next day you're a grandfather…

— George Foreman

When I look up and see the sun shining on the patch of white clouds up in the blue, I begin to think how…

— Eddie Rickenbacker

“The manager swiftly overtook him, sliding effortlessly past the skinny Englishman, with the practiced ease of someone used to slinking around ailing, despotic monarchs.”

— Tom Vater

When I started blogging in 2004, I responded to every comment no matter how nasty the reader was. I was generally polite, believing that…

— Jessica Valenti

...passing swiftly on toward further darknesses, but moving also toward a new sun.

— Ray Bradbury

Very softly, but very swiftly, Last, the man with the grey face and the staring eyes, bolted for his life, down and away from…

— Arthur Machen

Oh swiftly glides the bonnie boat, Just parted from the shore, And to the fisher's chorus-note Soft moves the dipping oar.

— Joanna Baillie

First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin…

— Barton Gellman

ASAP. Whatever that means. It must mean, 'Act swiftly awesome pacyderm!

— Dr. Seuss

“The dying go so swiftly at the end. Always the speed of their leaving catches me unawares; so much left to say, to promise,…

— M.C. Scott