Coarse

Famous quotes containing the word coarse:

““... But a coarse old man am I,
I choose the second-best,
I forget it all awhile
Upon a woman’s breast.”
Day-break and a candle end.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“... and fierce in each disk
of coarse yellow the archaic
smile, almost
agony, almost
a boy’s grin.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

“It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporeal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)