Weeping

Famous quotes containing the word weeping:

    “The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.”
    —Publilius Syrus (1st century B.C.)

    “What a cheerful rhyme! Clean not mean!
    Been not seen! Not tired—expired!
    We must now decide about place.
    We decide that place is the big weeping face
    And the other abstract lace of the race.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “All the strong agonized men
    Wear the hard clothes of war,
    Try to remember what they are fighting for.
    But in dark weeping helpless moments of peace
    Women and poets believe and resist forever.”
    —Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980)