cactus quotes

This is the dead land This is cactus land Here the stone images Are raised, here they receive The supplication of a dead man's hand Under the twinkle of a fading star.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  'The Hollow Men'.

Here one is in Later Life, and it's perfectly pleasant really, not for a moment that garden of cactus and sour grapes I'd always assumed it must be.

-Merrill,James Ingram
  Letter to a friend at age 46.

2 Quotes found. Displaying quotes 1 through 2

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2005 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.