Break

Famous quotes containing the word break:

“I did not know the woman I would be
nor that blood would bloom in me
each month like an exotic flower,
nor that children,
two monuments,
would break from between my legs....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“There is a comfort in the strength of love;
‘Twill make a thing endurable, which else
Would overset the brain, or break the heart:”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

“Hours before dawn we were woken by the quake.
My house was on a cliff. The thing could take
Bookloads off shelves, break bottles in a row.
Then the long pause and then the bigger shake.
It seemed the best thing to be up and go.”
—William Empson (1906–1984)