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)

“What’s lightly hid is deepest understood,”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)

“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)