Hands

Famous quotes containing the word hands:

“A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumour.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

“our hands were
flames
stealing upon quickened flesh until
no part of us but was
sleek and
on fire”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

“A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)