Longed

Famous quotes containing the word longed:

“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)

“for never yet
Has lover lived, but longed to wive
Like them that are no more alive.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“I have longed to move away
From the hissing of the spent lie....”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)