Fen Quotes

Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters. (William Wordsworth)
Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
Dismal and fearsome to view was this strong place of Carcë, most like to the embodied soul of dreadful night brooding on the waters of that sluggish river: by day a shadow in broad sunshine, the likeness of pitiless violence sitting in the place of power, darkening the desolation of the mournful fen; by night, a blackness more black than night herself. View quote
Eric Rücker Eddison
If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try. View quote
Marianne Moore
Discretion,” said Fen with great complacency, "is my middle name.” "I dare say. But very few people use their middle names. View quote
Edmund Crispin
People with yuan fen are destined to like one another; Friendship develops even if a thousand miles apart. But should yuan fen be absent between two individuals, They will remain strangers despite sitting face-to-face. View quote
Adeline Yen Mah
Who prop, thou ask'st in these bad days, my mind? He much, the old man, who, clearest-souled of men, Saw The Wide Prospect, and the Asian Fen, And Tmolus hill, and Smyrna bay, though blind. View quote
Matthew Arnold
When you were a tadpole and I was a fish In the Paleozoic time, And side by side on the ebbing tide We sprawled through the ooze and slime, Or skittered with many a caudal flip Through the depths of the Cambrian fen, My heart was rife with the joy of life, For I loved you even then. View quote
Langdon Smith