Famous quotes containing the word throw:
“The stars are putting on their glittering belts.
They throw around their shoulders cloaks that flash
Like a great shadows last embellishment.”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)
“but you are not deaf,
you pick out
your own song from the uproar
line by line,
and at last throw back
your head and sing it.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“... suffering does not ennoble. It destroys. To resist destruction, self-hatred, or lifelong hopelessness, we have to throw off the conditioning of being despised, the fear of becoming the they that is talked about so dismissively, to refuse lying myths and easy moralities, to see ourselves as human, flawed, and extraordinary. All of usextraordinary.”
—Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)
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