Lay

Famous quotes containing the word lay:

“grown fully, as they say,
they gave her a ring,
and she wore it like a root
and said to herself,
“To be not loved is the human condition,”
and lay like a statue in her bed.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
—Isaac Newton (1642–1727)

“If a joyous elephant should break forth into song, his lay would probably be very much like Whitman’s famous “Song of Myself.” It would have just about as much delicacy and deftness and discrimination.”
—Willa Cather (1873–1947)