Drawing Hand

Famous quotes containing the words drawing and/or hand:

    “For later in the vast gloom of cities, only there you learn
    How the ideas were good only because they had to die,
    Leaving you alone and skinless, a drawing by Vesalius.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “One hand stiff—heaviness of forties & menopause reduced
    by one heart stroke, lame now—wrinkles—a scar on
    her head, the lobotomy—ruin, the hand dipping downwards to
    death—”
    —Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)