Open Stakes

Famous quotes containing the words open and/or stakes:

    “She saw
    her five young children
    writhe and die;
    in that hour
    she began to watch you,
    she whose eyes are open forever.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    “Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.”
    —William Empson (1906–1984)