In the desert the most loved waters, like a lover's name, are carried blue in your hands, enter your throat. One swallows absence. (Michael Ondaatje)

In the desert the most loved waters, like a lover's name, are carried blue in your hands, enter your throat. One swallows absence.

Michael Ondaatje

Related topics

absence blue carry desert enter name throat hands

Related quotes

We live in our own world, A world that is too small For you to stoop and enter Even on hands and knees, The adult subterfuge. View quote
R. S. Thomas
The night folds her trembling hands over a weary world. Out of a pale blue rises the shining moon. My thoughts are flying to the stars like lonely swans. View quote
Joseph Goebbels
Do you know what it means to be loved by Death?... Do you know what it means to have Death know your name? View quote
Anne Rice
I was attorney general; my name is Meese. I say, go to college. Don't carry a piece. View quote
Edwin Meese
I strove with none, for none was worth my strife; Nature I loved; and next to Nature, Art. I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart. View quote
Walter Savage Landor