Sustains

Famous quotes containing the word sustains:

    Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    Only when manhood is dead—and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it—only then will we know what it is to be free.
    Andrea Dworkin (b. 1946)

    flex and reflex of claws
    gently pricking through sweater to skin
    gently sustains their own tune,
    not mine. I-Thou, cat, I-Thou.
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)