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)

    “This, however, is my teaching: whoever would one day learn to fly must first learn to stand and to walk and to run and to leap and to climb and to dance:Myou cannot fly into flying!”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “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)