August Quote by Cecil Day-Lewis

“I want to know: Why is a horse noble and the dove beloved but no one keeps a pet vulture in a gilded cage.…

— Sohrab Sepehri

“He had always prided himself on his ability to bargain, to bluff, to contain his ever-aching heart within the folds of his robes where…

— V.S. Carnes

“October" I remember how I would say, “I will gather These pieces together, Any minute now I will make A knife out of a…

— W.S. Merwin

“She sketched songbirds when she was supposed to be minding her lessons, and she sketched church mice when she was meant to be at…

— Tessa Dare

“He liked the clover, evidence of the country always pressing in close, quietly sabotaging anyone who tried to manicure nature into suburban submission.”

— Helen Simonson

“Everywhere the grain stood ripe and the hot afternoon was full of the smell of the ripe wheat, like the smell of bread baking…

— Willa Cather

“Yard after yard passed by, the berths empty, the grass growing about the sinking keel blocks. And now only the gaunt, dumb poles and…

— George Blake

“Without waiting for Momma's thanks, he rode out of the yard, sure that things were as they should be and that he was a…

— Maya Angelou

“He turned from the sight of human ignorance and human fate and the sea eating the ground we stand on, which, had he been…

— Virginia Woolf

“But when the springtime turns to dust (A thousand shades of blood and rust) And everything is ash and stone (Contagion writ in blood…

— Mira Grant

“Eventually everyone came out of the water and for hours and hours and hours we lay under the tree and talked and read and…

— Meg Rosoff

“They were galloping...Bare level plain had taken the place of the scrub and they'd been cantering briskly, the foals prancing delightedly ahead, when suddenly…

— Malcolm Lowry