Dragging

Famous quotes containing the word dragging:

“Her man falling asleep,
limp from dragging a plow sunk in mud,
the slattern curses the rains,
her pleasures unfinished.”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)

“There I was dragging the ocean, that knock-out,
in and out by its bottle-green neck, letting it chew
the rocks, letting it haul beach glass and furniture sticks
in and out.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“I saw the strange position of his hands
Up at his shoulders, dragging yellow strands
Of wire with something in it from men to men.
“You here?” I said. “Where aren’t you nowadays?...””
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)