Claws

Famous quotes containing the word claws:

“The poet is he that hath fat enough, like bears and marmots, to suck his claws all winter. He hibernates in this world, and feeds on his own marrow.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“For his teeth seem for laughing round an apple.
There lurk no claws behind his fingers supple;
And God will grow no talons at his heels,
Nor antlers through the thickness of his curls.”
—Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)

“A: You are afraid of intimacy. B: I have seen your claws and sharp teeth.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)