Small Body

Famous quotes containing the words small and/or body:

    “Tomorrow in the offices the year on the stamps will be altered;
    Tomorrow new diaries consulted, new calendars stand;
    With such small adjustments life will again move forward
    Implicating us all; and the voice of the living be heard:
    “It is to us that you should turn your straying attention;
    Us who need you, and are affected by your fortune;
    Us you should love and to whom you should give your word.””
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “It grieves me to think how far more profound and reverent a respect the law would have for literature if a body could only get drunk on it.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)