Head Wounds Sustained

Famous quotes containing the words head, wounds and/or sustained:

    “My father upon the Abbey stage, before him a raging crowd.
    “This Land of Saints,” and then as the applause died out,
    “Of plaster Saints;” his beautiful mischievous head thrown back.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “The last faint spark
    In the self-murdered heart, the wounds of the sad uncomprehending
    dark,
    The wounds of the baited bear,—
    The blind and weeping bear whom the keepers beat
    On his helpless flesh . . . the tears of the hunted hare.”
    —Dame Edith Sitwell (1887–1964)

    “I’ve arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane.”
    —Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977)