Best Stalks Quotes
53 Stalks quotes by 50 unique authors
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Then all at once in late August's heat, tall leafless stalks crowned with iridescent pink and purple blossoms burst from the purgatory in the earth.…
— Duane Michals
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The leaves hop, scraping on the ground. It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice. It is in…
— Wallace Stevens
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I often compare Margaret Thatcher with Florence Nightingale. She stalks through the wards of our hospitals as a lady with a lamp. Unfortunately, it's a…
— Denis Healey
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Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth's prolific lap.
— Bayard Taylor
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Now when the primrose makes a splendid show, And lilies face the March-winds in full blow, And humbler growths as moved with one desire Put…
— William Wordsworth
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Trochee trips from long to short; From long to long in solemn sort Slow Spondee stalks.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The poppies hung Dew-dabbled on their stalks.
— John Keats
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I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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I love to study the many things that grow below the corn stalks and bring them back to the studio to study the color. If…
— Andrew Wyeth
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The Ogre does what ogres can, Deeds quite impossible for Man, But one prize is beyond his reach: The Ogre cannot master speech. About a…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Last night I encountered a dream cat with a very long neck and a body like a human fetus, gray and transluscent. I don't know…
— William S. Burroughs
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Well. Then we had the irises, rising beautiful and cool on their tall stalks, like blown glass, like pastel water momentarily frozen in a splash,…
— Margaret Atwood
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They stood brow to brow, brown to white, black to black, he supporting her elbows, she playing her limp light fingers over his collarbone, and…
— Vladimir Mayakovsky
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For time and eternity there have been fathers like Nathan who simply can see no way to have a daughter but to own her like…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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I have never been much of a patriot. My father would not have allowed such a thing while he lived, and his death insured that…
— David Benioff
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I was on the verge of tears, so I turned and ran past the trailer and along the field road until I was safely out…
— John Grisham
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When a lion stalks a herd, he sneaks in close, lies down, and surveys them to choose his victim. He takes his time. The deer…
— Ilona Andrews
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Until-as often happened during those first months travel, whenever I would feel such happiness-my guilt alarm went off. I heard my ex-husband's voice speaking disdainfully…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.
— Victor Hugo
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Now that lilacs are in bloom She has a bowl of lilacs in her room And twists one in her fingers while she talks. "Ah,…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Celery leaves are an underused ingredient, most likely because supermarkets sell mostly leafless stalks.
— Yotam Ottolenghi
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Soledad Barrio is clearly a master - of thrilling steps and passionate movement. She stalks, she circles, she struts, she snaps her head - her…
— Robert Gottlieb
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My mom allowed me to take an old burlap bag and fill it with moss, corn stalks and rocks, then hang it from a tree…
— Joe Frazier
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Risin' up back on the street Did my time, took my chances Went the distance now I'm back on my feet Just a man and…
— Unkown
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I just met this girl and she already stalks my whole life.
— Jersey Shore
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