Famous quotes containing the words closing and/or reed:
“Although sleep pressed upon my closing eyelids, and the moon, on her horses, blushed in the middle of the sky, nevertheless I could not leave off watching your play; there was too much fire in your two voices.”
—Propertius Sextus (c. 50–16 B.C.)
“And the frigid burnings of purgatory will not be touched
By any emollient.”
—Henry Reed (1914–1986)