Frail

Famous quotes containing the word frail:

“Poor child,
great the breast,
small you
from frail stalk.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“Some theosophists have arrived at a certain hostility and indignation towards matter, as the Manichean and Plotinus. They distrusted in themselves any looking back to these flesh-pots of Egypt. Plotinus was ashamed of his body. In short, they might all say of matter, what Michael Angelo said of external beauty, “it is the frail and weary weed, in which God dresses the soul, which he has called into time.””
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Here, where no love is,
All that was hopeless
And kept me from sleeping
Is frail and unsure....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)