Famous quotes containing the word drags:
“A needless Alexandrine ends the song,
That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
“The words themselves are clean, so are the things to which they apply. But the mind drags in a filthy association, calls up some repulsive emotion. Well, then, cleanse the mind, that is the real job. It is the mind which is the Augean stables, not language.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“Bring the balloon of the mind
That bellies and drags in the wind
Into its narrow shed.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)