My siblings and I had often rebelled against this time of quietude as young children, but as grew older, it became sacred to us. |
In this case also, we are not really in a place of solitude or quietude, except in a superficial sense. |
Again, as in other pieces, the autumn poem uses quietude, fine enjambment and spacing, to convey the weight of the branches, the dying process. |
The apes bare the fierceness of their fangs, and their barks and snarls pierce the quietude of the forest. |
Only it had worn him down, until, eventually, he discovered that what he really wanted was peace and accordance, stability and a degree of quietude. |
A sense of strength and quietude is always what I take away from your writing. |