Bowed

Famous quotes containing the word bowed:

“he bowed and
not flinching from her black breath
gave her his arm....”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

“The Powers whose name and shape no living creature knows
Have pulled the Immortal Rose;
And though the Seven Lights bowed in their dance and wept,
The Polar Dragon slept,
His heavy rings uncoiled from glimmering deep to deep....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“... having bowed to the inevitability of the dictum that we must eat to live, we should ignore it and live to eat ...”
—M.F.K. Fisher (1908–1992)