Asked

Famous quotes containing the word asked:

    I asked the master Yeats
    Whose great style could not tell
    Why it is man hates
    His own salvation,
    Prefers the way to hell....
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    He asked if I would sell my Christmas trees;
    My woods the young fir balsams like a place
    Where houses all are churches and have spires.
    I hadn’t thought of them as Christmas trees.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    I met a little Elf-man, once,
    Down where the lilies blow.
    I asked him why he was so small
    And why he didn’t grow.
    John Kendrick Bangs (1862–1922)