Creep

Famous quotes containing the word creep:

    ““Have no lit candles in your room,”
    That love lady said,
    “That I at midnight by the clock
    May creep into your bed,
    For if I saw myself creep in
    I think I should drop dead.”
    O my dear, O my dear.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “By right or wrong,
    Lands and goods go to the strong.
    Property will brutely draw
    Still to the proprietor;
    Silver to silver creep and wind,
    And kind to kind.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “POET
    If not in a place, where are the People weeping?
    LIBERAL
    They creep weeping in the face, not place.
    POET
    Is it something with which we may cope
    The weeping, the creeping, the peepee-ing, the peeping?”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)