Famous quotes containing the word killed:
“I have killed all the good things,
but they are too stubborn for me.
They hang on.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“Planted deeper than roots,
This chiselled, flung-up faith
Runs and leaps against the sky,
A prayer killed into stone....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“Squats on a toad-stool under a tree
A bodiless childfull of life in the gloom,
Crying with frog voice, “What shall I be?
Poor unborn ghost, for my mother killed me
Scarcely alive in her wicked womb.”
—Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849)