Shook

Famous quotes containing the word shook:

    “Jove, nodding, shook the Heavens, and said,
    ‘Offending race of human kind,
    By nature, reason, learning, blind;
    You who through frailty stepped aside,
    And you who never fell—through pride;”
    —Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)

    “That Time can never mar a lover’s vows
    Under that woven changeless roof of boughs:
    The singing shook him out of his new ease.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
    It will flame out, like shining from shook foil.”
    —Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)