Slow

Famous quotes containing the word slow:

“Habit! that skillful but slow arranger, which starts out by letting our spirit suffer for weeks in a temporary state, but that the spirit is after all happy to discover, for without habit and reduced to its own resources, the spirit would be unable to make any lodgings seem habitable.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

“O you sand,
this is my command,
drown all men in slow breathless suffocation
then they may understand.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“Where the slow river
meets the tide,
a red swan lifts red wings
and darker beak.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)