Hands

Famous quotes containing the word hands:

“and wove seven strings,
Sweet with all music, out of his long hair,
Because her hands had been made wild by love.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“You will have to polish up the stars
with Bab-o and find a new God
as the earth empties out
into the gnarled hands of the old redeemer.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“slowly
smoothing in long
sliding strokes
our soapy hands along each other’s
slippery cool bodies”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)