Small Body

Famous quotes containing the words small and/or body:

    “But still the delicate slips keep coaxing up water;
    The small cells bulge;

    One nub of growth
    Nudges a sand-crumb loose,”
    —Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)

    “Her body is a honey bowl
    Whose waiting honey is deep and hot.
    Her body is like summer earth,
    Receptive, soft, and absolute . . .”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)