Famous quotes containing the word held:
“What I would like to write is a book about nothing, a book without exterior attachments, which would be held together by the inner force of its style, as the earth without support is held in the aira book that would have almost no subject or at least in which the subject would be almost invisible.”
—Gustave Flaubert (18211880)
“The wind had seized the tree and ha, and ha,
It held the shivering, the shaken limbs,
Then bathed its body in the leaping lake.”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)
“Then moved my Fingers off
As cautiously as Glass
And held my ears, and like a Thief
Fled gasping from the House”
—Emily Dickinson (18301886)
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