Heavy

Famous quotes containing the word heavy:

    “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)

    “O kinsmen of the Three in One,
    O kinsmen, bless the hands that play.
    The notes they waken shall live on
    When all this heavy history’s done;
    Our hands, our hands must ebb away.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Death,
    you lie in my arms like a cherub,
    as heavy as bread dough.
    Your milky wings are as still as plastic.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)