Plucked String

Famous quotes containing the words plucked and/or string:

    “But now I see I was not plucked for naught,
    And after in life’s vase
    Of glass set while I might survive,
    But by a kind hand brought
    Alive
    To a strange place.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “... looped with the creep of varying light,
    Monkey-brown, fish-grey, a string of infected circles
    Loitering like bullies, about to coagulate....”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)