Frail

Famous quotes containing the word frail:

“How frail the human heart must be—
a mirrored pool of thought.”
—Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)

“Some theosophists have arrived at a certain hostility and indignation towards matter, as the Manichean and Plotinus. They distrusted in themselves any looking back to these flesh-pots of Egypt. Plotinus was ashamed of his body. In short, they might all say of matter, what Michael Angelo said of external beauty, “it is the frail and weary weed, in which God dresses the soul, which he has called into time.””
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near”
—E.E. (Edward Estlin)