Wished

Famous quotes containing the word wished:

    We wished our two souls
    might return like gulls
    to the rock. In the end,
    the water was too cold for us.
    Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

    Take it all around, I was feeling ruther comfortable, on accounts of taking all this trouble for that gang, for not many would a done it. I wished the widow knowed about it. I judged she would be proud of me for helping these rapscallions, because rapscallions and dead beats is the kind the widow and good people takes the most interest in.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    Tightly-folded bud,
    I have wished you something
    None of the others would....
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)