Long Bones

Famous quotes containing the words long and/or bones:

“Winds through the olive trees
Softly did blow,
Round little Bethlehem
Long, long ago.”
—Unknown. Long, Long Ago (l. 1–4)

“Sixteen. Her breasts
round, round, and
dark-nippled
who now these two months long
is bones and tatters of flesh in earth.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)