Famous quotes containing the word hold:
“The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it.... Beware of me, it says, but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“With loves light wings did I oerperch these walls,
For stony limits cannot hold love out,
And what love can do, that dares love attempt.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“Now I hold Creation in my foot
Or fly up, and revolve it all slowly
I kill where I please because it is all mine.
There is no sophistry in my body:
My manners are tearing off heads
The allotment of death.”
—Ted Hughes (b. 1930)
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