Shakes

Famous quotes containing the word shakes:

“He shakes the dust from off his feet
And shambles down the dirty street
The last man in the town, they said,
Who’d shot a hundred Yankees dead.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)

“War brought more glory to their eyes than blood,
And gave their laughs more glee than shakes a child.”
—Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)

“When I lie down to love,
old dwarf heart shakes her head.
Like an imbecile she was born old.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)