Palm Stem

Famous quotes containing the words palm and/or stem:

    The body, what is it, Father, but a sign
    To love the force that grows us, to give back
    What in Thy palm is senselessness and mud?
    Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)

    The melon is growing but its stem is shriveling.
    Russian popular saying, trans. by Vladimir Ivanovich Shlyakov (1993)