Drained

Famous quotes containing the word drained:

“all that we might have been,
all that we were—fire, tears,
wit, taste, martyred ambition—
stirs like the memory of refused adultery
the drained and flagging bosom of our middle years.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)

“Before we drained out one another’s force
With lies, self-denial, unspoken regret
And the sick eyes that blame; before the divorce
And the treachery.”
—William Dewitt Snodgrass (b. 1926)

“The only living works are those which have drained much of the author’s own life into them.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)