Long Bones

Famous quotes containing the words long and/or bones:

    “But neither steele nor stony breast
    Are proof against those lookes of thine,
    Nor can a Beauty lesse divine
    Of any heart be long possest,
    Where thou pretend’st an interest.”
    —Aurelian Townshend (c. 1583–c.1651)

    “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)