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 cannot tell how many times we had to walk on account of falls or rapids. We were expecting all the while that the river would take a final leap and get to smooth water, but there was no improvement this forenoon.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“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)