Lesser

Famous quotes containing the word lesser:

    And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of self-preservation.
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    Flower sent to flower;
    for white hands, the lesser white,
    less lovely of flower leaf.
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    Imagining that I could
    A greater with a lesser pang assuage
    Or but to find if withered vein ran blood,
    I tore my body that its wine might cover
    Whatever could recall the lip of lover.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)