Slow Left Arm

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

    “He is as valiant as the lion, churlish as the bear, slow as the elephant.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Like a canoe route across the great lake on whose shore
    One is left trapped, grumbling not so much at bad luck as
    Because only this one side of experience is ever revealed.
    And that meant something.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “In his tenth July some instinct
    taught him to arm the waiting wave,
    a giant where its mouth hung open.
    He rode on the lip that buoyed him there
    and buckled him under.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)