Long Bones

Famous quotes containing the words long and/or bones:

“What should I say about life? That’s it’s long and abhors transparence.”
—Joseph Brodsky (b. 1940)

“There are knives that glitter like altars
In a dark church
Where they bring the cripple and the imbecile
To be healed.

There’s a woden block where bones are broken,
Scraped clean—a river dried to its bed”
—Charles Simic (b. 1938)