“Just swell.”
The Wednesday Wars
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American writer 1957Related quotes

“My swelling heart for very anger breaks.”
King Edward, Act II, scene ii, line 197
Edward II (c. 1592)

Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011), p. 187

“The swells were amazing! As big as three-story apartment buildings!”
Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011), p.. 153

“Wear the cap and the bells
And you'll rate all the great swells.”
"Be A Clown"
The Pirate (1948)
Context: Wear the cap and the bells
And you'll rate all the great swells.
If you become a doctor, folks'll face you with dread.
If you become a dentist, they'll be glad when you're dead.
You get a bigger hand if you can stand on your head.
Be a clown, be a clown, be a clown.

“We sail across dominions barely seen, washed by the swells of time.”
Ancient Evenings (1983) Last lines
Context: We sail across dominions barely seen, washed by the swells of time. We plow through fields of magnetism. Past and future come together on thunderheads and our dead hearts live with lightning in the wounds of the Gods.
“Their hearts swelled with its beauty, its mystery. With all it revealed, and all that it hid.”
Part Two: The Lost Music, "The Touchstone" p. 507
The Little Country (1991)
Context: They stood and listened, arms around each other for comfort, as the sound washed over them. It reverberated in the marrow of their bones, sung high and sweet, heartbreakingly mournful, quick as a jig, slow as the saddest air. Their hearts swelled with its beauty, its mystery. With all it revealed, and all that it hid.

“I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.”
"Still I Rise"
And Still I Rise (1978)
Context: Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.