Grope

Famous quotes containing the word grope:

    “Some flakes have lost their way, and grope back upward, when
    Meeting those meandering down they turn and descend again.”
    —Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

    “The world still wants its poet-priest, a reconciler, who shall not trifle with Shakspeare the player, nor shall grope in graves with Swedenborg the mourner; but who shall see, speak, and act, with equal inspiration. For knowledge will brighten the sunshine; right is more beautiful than private affection; and love is compatible with universal wisdom.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Crazed through much child-bearing
    The moon is staggering in the sky;
    Moon-struck by the despairing
    Glances of her wandering eye
    We grope, and grope in vain,
    For children born of her pain.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)