Hands

Famous quotes containing the word hands:

“One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

“The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.”
—Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–1898)

“Oh, forgive me. Shaking hands with me is an unpleasant experience. My hands are no longer hands.”
—Crane Wilbur (1889–1973)