Moving Body Maintain

Famous quotes containing the words moving, body and/or maintain:

“Light-lashed, self-righteous, above moving snouts,
the pigs’ eyes followed him, a cheerful stare,
even to the sow that always ate her young—”
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)

“The water never formed to mind or voice,
Like a body wholly body, fluttering
Its empty sleeves; and yet its mimic motion
Made constant cry,”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“He should be as vigorous as a sugar maple, with sap enough to maintain his own verdure,... and not like a vine, which being cut in the spring bears no fruit, but bleeds to death in the endeavor to heal its wounds.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)