Thighs

Famous quotes containing the word thighs:

“Your thighs are appletrees
whose blossoms touch the sky.
Which sky? The sky
where Watteau hung a lady’s
slipper.”
—William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)

“The narcissus has copied the arch
of your slight breast:
your feet are citron-flowers,
your knees, cut from white-ash,
your thighs are rock-cistus.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“quiet, negligent riding,
my toes standing the stirrups,
my thighs hugging his ribs.”
—May Swenson (1919–1995)