High Heels

Famous quotes containing the words high and/or heels:

    “And since our Daintie age,
    Cannot indure reproofe,
    Make not thy selfe a Page,
    To that strumpet the Stage,
    But sing high and aloofe,
    Safe from the wolves black jaw, and the dull Asses hoofe.”
    —Ben Jonson (1572–1637)

    “in small war on the heels of small
    war—until the end of time
    to police the earth, a ghost
    orbiting forever lost
    in our monotonous sublime.”
    —Robert Lowell (1917–1977)