Long Bones

Famous quotes containing the words long and/or bones:

“the pull of gravity, which is not simple
which carries the feathered grass a long way down the upbreathing
air.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)

“From the time the Englishman’s bones harden into bones at all, he makes his skeleton a flagstaff, and he early plants his feet like one who is to walk the world and the decks of all the seas.”
—Willa Cather (1876–1947)