Hold

Famous quotes containing the word hold:

“You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.”
—Booker T. Washington (1856–1915)

“I hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one needful and the pearls without the string; rather one should say raw nuggets and rough diamonds.”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)

“Overnight, very
Whitely, discreetly,
Very quietly

Our toes, our noses
Take hold on the loam,
Acquire the air.”
—Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)