Delicate

Famous quotes containing the word delicate:

“He was too delicate to admit, even to himself, the desirability of marrying two thousand a year.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)

“Mother,
strange goddess face
above my milk home,
that delicate asylum,
I ate you up.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“Thy seas in delicate haze
Go off; those mooned sands forsake their place;
And where they are, shall other seas in turn
Mow with their scythes of whiteness other bays.”
—Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus)