Shabby

Famous quotes containing the word shabby:

“Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.”
—Edward Dahlberg (1900–1977)

“Each venture
Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate
With shabby equipment always deteriorating
In the general mess of imprecision of feeling.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

“O hideous little bat, the size of snot,
With polyhedral eye and shabby clothes,”
—Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)