Careless

Famous quotes containing the word careless:

“Constant Penelope sends to thee, careless Ulysses.
Write not again, but come, sweet mate,”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

“As for farming, I am convinced that my genius dates from an older era than the agricultural. I would at least strike my spade into the earth with such careless freedom but accuracy as the woodpecker his bill into a tree.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Then with the careless energy
Of a dream, the forward curse
Of a cold particular eye
In the headlong hearse.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)