Conch Quotes

“-I got the conch!" --Piggy (in Lord of the Flies), attempting Democracy”
― William Golding

“And the heart sounds like a sour conch,
calls, oh sea, oh lament, oh molten panic,
scattered in the unlucky and disheveled waves:
the sea reports sonorously
on its languid shadows, its green poppies.”
― Pablo Neruda, The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems

“Open the scroll of conch and find the text
That lies behind the priestly susurrus.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

“One can convert the sound of a conch in groaning. That groan is of dead conch”
― মলয় রায়চৌধুরী, শ্রীমরা রচিত কথন

“They have brought me a conch shell.

Within it sings
a map sized sea.
My heart
fills up with water
and little fish
of shadow and silver.

They have brought me a conch shell.”
― Federico García Lorca, The Cricket Sings: Poems & Songs for Children