Fills

Famous quotes containing the word fills:

    When an old Woman begins to doat [sic], and grow chargeable to a Parish, she is generally turned into a Witch, and fills the whole Country with extravagant Fancies, imaginary Distempers, and terrifying Dreams. In the mean time, the poor Wretch that is the innocent Occasion of so many Evils begins to be frighted at her self, and sometimes confesses secret Commerces and Familiarities that her Imagination forms in a delirious old Age.
    Joseph Addison (1672–1719)

    One great advantage which poetry has over prose—one sense in which, we might even say, it is considerably more beautiful—is that it fills up space approximately three times as rapidly.
    James Thurber (1894–1961)

    No, they are dark and wrinkled and hairy,
    caves of the Moon . . .——— And when a
    dark humming fills us, a
    coldness towards life,
    we are too much women to
    own such unwomanliness.
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)