Lift

Famous quotes containing the word lift:

“Oh! lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!
I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

“Strong to break dead things,
the young tree, drained of sap,
the old tree, ready to drop,
to lift from the rotting bed
of leaves, the old
crumbling pine tree stock.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“Men, forever tempted to lift the veil of the future—with the aid of computers or horoscopes or the intestines of sacrificial animals—have a worse record to show in these “sciences” than in almost any scientific endeavor.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)