Slow Left Arm

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

    “smile
    As you find a rhythm
    Working you, slow mile by mile,
    Into your proper haunt
    Somewhere, well out, beyond . . .”
    —Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)

    “Weaker and weaker, the sunlight falls
    In the afternoon. The proud and the strong
    Have departed.
    Those that are left are the unaccomplished,
    The finally human,
    Natives of a dwindled sphere.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “Innings and afternoons. Fly lost in sunset.
    Throwing arm gone bad. There’s your old ball game.
    Cool reek of the field. Reek of companions.”
    —Robert Fitzgerald (1910–1985)