Knew

Famous quotes containing the word knew:

“I knew a woman, lovely in her bones,
When small birds sighed, she would sigh back at them;
Ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than one;”
—Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)

“He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack,
For he knew when he pleas’d he could whistle them back.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774)

“What were they like? What mark
Can signify their charm?
They never saw the dark;
Rigid, they never knew alarm.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)