Delicate

Famous quotes containing the word delicate:

“The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“But still the delicate slips keep coaxing up water;
The small cells bulge;

One nub of growth
Nudges a sand-crumb loose,”
—Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)

“O delicate walker, babbler, dialectician Fire,
O enemy and image of ourselves,”
—Louis MacNeice (1907–1963)