Shakes

Famous quotes containing the word shakes:

“Death quarrels, and shakes the tree,
And fears are flowers, and flowers are generation,
And the founding, foundering, beast-instructed mansion
Of love called into being by this same death
Hangs everywhere its light.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“Every drowsy nod shakes their doctrine, who teach, that the soul is always thinking.”
—John Locke (1632–1704)

“A slight wind shakes the seed-pods
my thoughts are spent
as the black seeds.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)