Famous quotes containing the word held:
“A city on whom plenty held full hand,
For riches strewed herself even in her streets;
Whose towers bore heads so high they kissed the clouds,
And strangers neer beheld but wondered at.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“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)
“I held a bayonet
that was for the earth of your stomach.
The belly button singing its puzzle.
The intestines winding like the alpine roads.
It was made to enter you
as you have entered me....”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
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