Lean

Famous quotes containing the word lean:

“Street lamps come out, and lean at corners, awry,
Casting black shadows, oblique and intense....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“As they lean over the beans in their rented back room that
is full of beads and receipts and dolls and cloths,
tobacco crumbs, vases and fringes.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

“The lean cats of the arches of the churches,
That’s the old world. In the new, all men are priests.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)