Leap

Famous quotes containing the word leap:

“Infinite hungers leap no more
In the chance swaying of your dress;
And love has changed to kindliness.”
—Rupert Brooke (1887–1915)

“I—love’s skein upon the ground,
My body in the tomb—
Shall leap into the light lost
In my mother’s womb.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ground. They don’t always do it well. But they are our philosophers of actual moments and the body and soul in them, and of our manoeuvres in our emergencies and longings.”
—Harold Brodkey (b. 1930)