Lightly

Famous quotes containing the word lightly:

“A simple child,
That lightly draws its breath,
And feels its life in every limb,
What should it know of death?”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

“Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

“Give her strewings, but not stir
The earth that lightly covers her.”
—Robert Herrick (1591–1674)