Prayed

Famous quotes containing the word prayed:

“What is to be taught I learn; what is to be discovered I seek; what is to be prayed for I sought from the gods.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

“When the light was extinguished,
She covered me warm,
And she prayed to the angels
To keep me from harm—”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

“They prayed for a touch,
they cried for the sight of my face,
they entreated me
till in pity
I turned each to his own self.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)