Hand Rails

Famous quotes containing the words hand and/or rails:

    “Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in. Most poets are dead by their late twenties.”
    —Robert Graves (1895–1985)

    “The train’s gone, the rails are cold.”
    —Russian saying, trans. by Vladimir Ivanovich Shlyakov (1993)