Clumsy

Famous quotes containing the word clumsy:

“The living all assemble! What’s the cue?—
Do what the clumsy partner wants to do!”
—Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)

“A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)

“When I saw that clumsy crow
Flap from a wasted tree,
A shape in the mind rose up:”
—Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)