Extra Wide Gathers

Famous quotes containing the words extra, wide and/or gathers:

“When we leave our child in nursery school for the first time, it won’t be just our child’s feelings about separation that we will have to cope with, but our own feelings as well—from our present and from our past, parents are extra vulnerable to new tremors from old earthquakes.”
—Fred Rogers (20th century)

“This mortal air is one wide pestilence, that kills us all at last.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“He gathers deeds
In the pure air, the agent
Of their factual excesses.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)