Famous quotes containing the word dear:
“Your legs that bounce me up and down,
your dear nylon-covered legs,
are the horses I will ride
into eternity.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“I’m sorry to say my dear wife is a dreamer,
And as she dreams she gets paler and leaner.
Then be off to your Dream, with his fly-away hat,
I’ll stay with the girls who are happy and fat.”
—Stevie Smith (1902–1971)
“Chaucer’s remarkably trustful and affectionate character appears in his familiar, yet innocent and reverent, manner of speaking of his God. He comes into his thought without any false reverence, and with no more parade than the zephyr to his ear.... There is less love and simple, practical trust in Shakespeare and Milton. How rarely in our English tongue do we find expressed any affection for God! Herbert almost alone expresses it, “Ah, my dear God!””
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)