Leap

Famous quotes containing the word leap:

“Iambics march from short to long;—
With a leap and a bound the swift Anapaests throng;”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)

“As long as she is young and personable, every woman may cherish the dream that she may leap up the social ladder and dim the sheen of luxury by sheer natural loveliness; the few examples of such a feat are kept before the eye of the public.”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)

“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)