Ache

Famous quotes containing the word ache:

“The ache of marriage:
thigh and tongue, beloved,
are heavy with it....”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

“Age wins and one must learn to grow old.... I must learn to walk this long unlovely wintry way, looking for spectacles, shunning the cruel looking-glass, laughing at my clumsiness before others mistakenly condole, not expecting gallantry yet disappointed to receive none, apprehending every ache of shaft of pain, alive to blinding flashes of mortality, unarmed, totally vulnerable.”
—Diana Cooper (1892–1986)

“Two by two in the ark of
the ache of it.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)