Handful

Famous quotes containing the word handful:

    “All that tread,
    The globe are but a handful to the tribes,
    That slumber in its bosom.”
    —William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)

    “And now you try
    Your handful of notes;
    The clear vowels rise like balloons.”
    —Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)

    “The freedom of indifference, the indifference of freedom, the will dust in the dust of its object, the act a handful of sand let fall—these were some of the shapes he had sighted, sunset landfall after many days.”
    —Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)