Solitary

Famous quotes containing the word solitary:

“There must be a solemn and terrible aloneness that comes over the child as he takes those first independent steps. All this is lost to memory and we can only reconstruct it through analogies in later life....To the child who takes his first steps and finds himself walking alone, this moment must bring the first sharp sense of the uniqueness and separateness of his body and his person, the discovery of the solitary self.”
—Selma H. Fraiberg (20th century)

“While glow the heavens with the last steps of day,
Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue
Thy solitary way!”
—William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)

“The hunchback in the park
A solitary mister
Propped between trees and water.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)