Touching

Famous quotes containing the word touching:

    “I farm a pasture where the boulders lie
    As touching as a basketful of eggs....”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “Did she in touching that lone wing
    Recall the years before her mind
    Became a bitter, an abstract thing...?”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Slow, slow, as a fish she came,
    Slow as a fish coming forward,
    Swaying in a long wave;
    Her skirts not touching a leaf,
    Her white arms reaching towards me.”
    —Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)