Heavy

Famous quotes containing the word heavy:

“All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.”
—Harold Bloom (b. 1930)

“With fingers weary and worn,
With eyelids heavy and red,
A woman sat, in unwomanly rags
Plying her needle and thread—
Stitch! stitch! stitch!
In poverty, hunger, and dirt,”
—Thomas Hood (1799–1845)

“Now we will have a Christ.
He covers her like a heavy door
and shuts her lifetime up
into this dump-faced day.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)