Bending

Famous quotes containing the word bending:

“No ray is dimmed, no atom worn,
My oldest force is good as new,
And the fresh rose on yonder thorn
Gives back the bending heavens in dew.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“‘Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)

“Back from that great-grandfather I have come
to puzzle a bending gravestone for his sake,
to question this diminishing and feed a minimum
of children their careful slice of suburban cake.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)