Famous quotes containing the word grown:
“she will not say how there
must be more to living
than this brief bright bridge
of the raucous bed or even
the slow braille touch of him
like a heavy god grown light....”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
“I am grown old and my memory is not as active as it used to be. When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now, and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this, but we all have to do it.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“Those friends have left.
Only stumps remain
in the thickets
and weve grown old, besides.
Loves been cut off
at the roots.”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)
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