“…his head emerged cautiously, like that of a snail taking a look around after a thunderstorm.”
The Code of the Woosters (1938)
“Uncontradicting solitude
Supports me on its giant palm;
And like a sea-anemone
Or simple snail, there cautiously
Unfolds, emerges, what I am.”
Source: Collected Poems
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Supports me on its giant palm;
And like a sea-anemone
Or simple snail, there cautiously
Unfold…" by Philip Larkin?
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English poet, novelist, jazz critic and librarian 1922–1985Related quotes
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“Snail, snail, glister me forward,
Bird, soft-sigh me home,
Worm, be with me.
This is my hard time.”
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"The Lost Son," ll. 8-11
The Lost Son and Other Poems (1948)
Context: I shook the softening chalk of my bones,
Saying,
Snail, snail, glister me forward,
Bird, soft-sigh me home,
Worm, be with me.
This is my hard time.
