Hands

Famous quotes containing the word hands:

    Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.
    —Jean De La Bruyère (1645–1696)

    The harlot squatted
    with her hands over her red hair.
    She was not looking for customers.
    She was in a deep fear.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    Dull sublunary lovers’ love,
    Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
    Absence, because it doth remove
    Those things which elemented it.

    But we by a love so much refined
    That our selves know not what it is,
    Interassured of the mind,
    Careless eyes, lips, and hands to miss.

    Our two souls therefore, which are one,
    Though I must go, endure not yet
    A breach, but an expansion,
    Like gold to airy thinness beat.
    John Donne (1572–1631)