Familiar

Famous quotes containing the word familiar:

“At it in its familiar twang: “My friend,
Cut your own throat. Cut your own throat. Now! Now!”
September twenty-second, Sir, the bough
Cracks with the unpicked apples, and at dawn
The small-mouth bass breaks water, gorged with spawn.”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

“Oh! no! we never mention her,
Her name is never heard;
My lips are now forbid to speak
That once familiar word.”
—Thomas Bayly (1797–1839)

“The flesh of past lovers looks both familiar and strange.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)