Dragging

Famous quotes containing the word dragging:

“Can they never tell
What is dragging them back, and how it will end? Not at night?
Not when the strangers come? Never, throughout
The whole hideous inverted childhood? Well,
We shall find out.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“I saw the strange position of his hands
Up at his shoulders, dragging yellow strands
Of wire with something in it from men to men.
“You here?” I said. “Where aren’t you nowadays?...””
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“When I had reached my term, I looked like a rat dragging a stolen egg.”
—Colette [Sidonie Gabrielle Colette] (1873–1954)