Famous quotes containing the word held:
“Meanwhile Snow White held court,
rolling her china-blue doll eyes open and shut
and sometimes referring to her mirror
as women do.”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
“And knew that nature could not more refine
What it had given in a looking-glass
And held there, after the living bodys line
Has moved wherever it must move ...”
—Allen Tate (18991979)
“So that this beautiful realm of hers was held in her mind extended, or lengthened: it had been finite, bounded, known utterly and in every detail, self-enclosed ... but now it lapped and rippled out and upwards beyond there into hinterlands that were like unknown possibilities in her own mind.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)
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