Famous quotes containing the word desired:
“I have desired to go
Where springs not fail,
To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail
And a few lilies blow.”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)
“I desired my dust to be mingled with yours
Forever and forever and forever.
Why should I climb the look out?”
—Li Po (701–762)
“As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.”
—Maya Angelou (b. 1928)