Swallows Quotes

“In a real poem a sound does not swallow a letter, but a letter swallows a sound.”

“True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.”

“Your kiss swallows meAnd engulfs my very soul”

“What is gone is gone and will not come back. When the earth swallows, it swallows forever and we are left to stumble along feeling the absences. These are our burdens.”

“We've already been killed, all of us. It happened so long ago, we've forgotten it.”

“Later, Ella looked for the two swallows in the eaves outside the window, watching them even more closely now. The thought of them flying all that way, across mountains and seas and returning here, because this was their home - of them knowing how to find it - changed things. It was a new way of seeing; this was no longer just the place where women and men were kept, but the home of other creatures too, ones that had travelled far and still chosen it because this, above all other places, was the place to bring their families into the world.”

“Don't most astrophysicists now predict some "end of the line" - an end to it all? Not just the death of things, but the annihilation of everything. Some great contraction, or collapse. Or, perhaps, some vast dissipation into eternal emptiness. Maybe it's all swallowed up by an immense black hole, which then swallows itself. But, whatever the case, their extinction is inevitable and absolute. So complete as to erase any and all evidence that this reality - this existence - ever took place. So complete that, perhaps, for all intents and purposes, it never really did. (attrib: F.L. Vanderson)”

“Death swallows death.”

“He who runs with the platypus is no more a man than he who swallows chesnuts”

“One thing about London is that when you step out into the night, it swallows you.”