Sucking

Famous quotes containing the word sucking:

    “I will aggravate my voice so that I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove. I will roar you and ‘twere any nightingale.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “So if hunger provokes wailing and wailing brings the breast; if the breast permits sucking and milk suggests its swallow; if swallowing issues in sleep and stomachy comfort, then need, ache, message, object, act, and satisfaction are soon associated like charms on a chain; shortly our wants begin to envision the things which well reduce them, and the organism is finally said to wish.”
    —William Gass (b. 1924)

    “You cutting the lawn, fixing the machines,
    all this leprous day and then more vodka,
    more soda and the pond forgiving our bodies,
    the pond sucking out the throb.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)