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  • Dead echoes! But I knew her body there, Time like a serpent down her shoulder, dark, And space, an eaglet's wing, laid on her hair.

    - (Harold) Hart Crane
      The Bridge,'The River'.

  • Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

    - (George) Norman Douglas
      How About Europe?

  • People out of work are not given to talking much about the one thing on their minds.You only sense by indirection, degrees of anger, shades of humiliation and echoes of fear.

    -Walker Evans
    Quoted in Fortune,11 Feb1980.

  • But O the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone, and never must return! Thee shepherd, thee the woods, and desert caves, With wild thyme and the gadding vine o'ergrown, And all their echoes mourn.

    -John Milton
      Lycidas, l.37^41.

  •    The splendour falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.

    -Tennyson
      The Princess, pt.4, added song, stanza1.

  •    O hark,O hear! how thin and clear And thinner, clearer, farther going! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying: Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.

    -Tennyson
      The Princess, pt.4, added song, stanza 2.

  •    O love, they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or river: Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.

    -Tennyson
      The Princess, pt.4, added song, stanza 3.

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