Lay Readers

Famous quotes containing the words lay and/or readers:

    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)

    Rabelais, for instance, is intolerable; one chapter is better than a volume,—it may be sport to him, but it is death to us. A mere humorist, indeed, is a most unhappy man; and his readers are most unhappy also.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)