Slow Left Arm

Famous quotes containing the words slow, left and/or arm:

    “I thank you for your letter. I was very glad to get it; and I am glad again to write to you. However slow the steamer, no time intervenes between the writing and the reading of thoughts, but they come freshly to the most distant port.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Nearing again the legendary isle
    Where sirens sang and mariners were skinned,
    We wonder now what was there to beguile
    That such stout fellows left their bones behind.”
    —Cecil Day Lewis (1904–1972)

    “I dreamed of an out-thrust arm of land
    Where gulls blew over a wave
    That fell along miles of sand....”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)