Cold

Famous quotes containing the word cold:

“Who would have suspected so large and cold and thick-skinned a thing to be so sensitive? Yet it has its law to which it thunders obedience when it should as surely as the buds expand in the spring.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“My friend’s cold made-up face, granite among its flowers,
Her undressed, operated-on, dressed body
Were my face and body.”
—Randall Jarrell (1914–1965)

“Of how he loved high laughter and the lonely
Heart, and cursed a dissipated rime
Of weariness in a golden morning, only
To rouse a cold Helen where the dawn distils
Her bewildered beauty on feet-forgotten hills.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)