Keeping Left Takes

Famous quotes containing the words keeping, left and/or takes:

    Anne,
    who were you?
    Merely a kid keeping alive.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    Everyone has left me
    except my muse,
    that good nurse.
    She stays in my hand,
    a mild white mouse.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    However others calculate the cost,
    To us the final aggregate is one,
    One with a name, one transferred to the blest;
    And though another stoops and takes the gun,
    We cannot add the second to the first.
    Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)