Famous quotes containing the words skeleton, world and/or cup:
“that skeleton wearing his bones like a broiler,
or his righteousness like a swastika.”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
“Wandering between two worlds, one dead,
The other powerless to be born,
With nowhere yet to rest my head,
Like these, on earth I wait forlorn.
Their faith, my tears, the world deride
I come to shed them at their side.”
—Matthew Arnold (18221888)
“Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left for the others.”
—Elizabeth Fishel (20th century)