One

Famous quotes containing the word one:

“O would, beloved, that you lay
Under the dock-leaves in the ground,
While lights were paling one by one.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“What is the waiting head doing? It looks the same.
Will it lean forward as I turn to go?
I think I can hear it call to me below
but no one came no one came.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“There is room in the halls of pleasure
For a large and lordly train,
But one by one we must all file on
Through the narrow aisles of pain.”
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919)