Clinging

Famous quotes containing the word clinging:

“Philosophy, having crept clinging to the rocks so far, puts out its feelers many ways in vain.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“These are the small townsmen of death,
A man and a woman, like two leaves
That keep clinging to a tree,
Before winter freezes and grows black....”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“Not honey, not the sweet
stain on the lips and teeth:
not honey, not the deep
plunge of soft belly
and the clinging of the gold-edged
pollen-dusted feet.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)