Famous quotes containing the word lifts:
“a strange being leans over her
and lifts her chin firmly
and gazes at her with executioner’s eyes.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“The My Lai soldier lifts me up again and again
and lowers me down with the other dead women and babies
saying, It’s my job. It’s my job.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“She lifts the shadows from my blackest griefs, and makes even my darkest days serene ones.”
—Jean Racine (1639–1699)