Common Short Hand

Famous quotes containing the words common, short and/or hand:

“But genius is religious. It is a larger imbibing of the common heart.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Energy falls just short of being joy.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Oh demon within,
I am afraid and seldom put my hand up
to my mouth and stitch it up
covering you, smothering you
from the public voyeury eyes
of my typewriter keys.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)