Arm

Famous quotes containing the word arm:

    the uncomfortable angels that rot
    On the slabs, a wing chipped here, an arm there:
    The brute curiosity of an angel’s stare
    Turns you, like them, to stone....
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    I dreamed of an out-thrust arm of land
    Where gulls blew over a wave
    That fell along miles of sand....
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    In his tenth July some instinct
    taught him to arm the waiting wave,
    a giant where its mouth hung open.
    He rode on the lip that buoyed him there
    and buckled him under.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)