Shadow Killing

Famous quotes containing the words shadow and/or killing:

“the shadow of a difference
falling between
note and note,
a hair’s breadth
defining them.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

“Lord, thy most pointed pleasure take
And stab my spirit broad awake;
Or, Lord, if too obdurate I,
Choose thou, before that spirit die,
A piercing pain, a killing sin,
And to my dead heart run them in!”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)