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)