Clipped

Famous quotes containing the word clipped:

“To treat a “big” subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening’s traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)

“And our dreams,
with what frivolity we have pared them
like toenails, clipped them like ends of
split hair.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

“Who clipped the lion’s wings
And flea’d his rump and pared his claws?
Thought Burbank, meditating on
Time’s ruins, and the seven laws.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)