Legs

Famous quotes containing the word legs:

    “quaking muscles in the act of birth,
    Between her legs a pigmy face appear,
    And the first murderer lay upon the earth.”
    —Alec Derwent Hope (b. 1907)

    “I live in my wooden legs and O
    my green green hands.
    Too late
    to wish I had not run from youpollo,
    blood moves still in my bark bound veins.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “But I am here,
    And they are far, and time is old.
    Within my dream the grass is cold;
    The legs and locked; the sky is dead.”
    —Mark Van Doren (1894–1973)