Famous quotes containing the word put:
“Why put up with the almshouse when you may go to heaven?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“You flicker. I cannot touch you.
I put my hands among the flames. Nothing burns.
And it exhausts me to watch you
Flickering like that, wrinkly and clear red, like the skin of a mouth.”
—Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)