Slow Left Arm

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

    “Condemned to Hope’s delusive mine,
    As on we toil from day to day,
    By sudden blasts or slow decline
    Our social comforts drop away.”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    “Year after year beheld the silent toil
    That spread his lustrous coil;
    Still as the spiral grew,
    He left the past year’s dwelling for the new,
    Stole with soft step its shining archway through,
    Built up its idle door,
    Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.”
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

    “He gets red roses in different places,
    the head, that time he was as sleepy as a river,
    the back, that time he was a broken scarecrow,
    the arm like a diamond had bitten it,
    the leg, twisted like a licorice stick....”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)