Thin

Famous quotes containing the word thin:

“sullen fun

Savage as childhood’s thin harmonious tear:
O fountain, bosom source undying-dead
Replenish me the spring of love and fear”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)

“... found myself
myself, smaller,
not thin but thinner, nervous,
who hurries without animal calm.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

“In the thin classroom, where your face
was noble and your words were all things,
I find this boily creature in your place....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)