Longed

Famous quotes containing the word longed:

    “The caged bird sings
    with a fearful trill
    of things unknown
    but longed for still
    and his tune is heard
    on the distant hill
    for the caged bird
    sings of freedom.”
    —Maya Angelou (b. 1928)

    “I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.”
    —Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–1879)

    “Some violent bitter man, some powerful man
    Called architect and artist in, that they,
    Bitter and violent men, might rear in stone
    The sweetness that all longed for night and day,
    The gentleness none there had ever known....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)