waiting quotes

Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end. What is there to be or do? What's become of me or you?

- Sir William Empson
  'Just a Smack at  Auden'.

Pity the poor creatures in warmer countries where the seasons never change.Where summer is eternal and they never know the pain of waiting and the joy at last when summer comes.

- Ray Guy
  That Far Greater Bay,'Catching Conners'.

Prompt me,God, But not yet.When I speak Though it be you who speak Through me, something is lost. The meaning is the waiting.

- R(onald) S(tuart) Thomas
  'Kneeling'.