High Birth

Famous quotes containing the words high and/or birth:

“How tall the buildings were as I began
To live, and how high the rain that battered them!”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“My demon,
too often undressed,
too often a crucifix I bring forth,
too often a dead daisy I give water to
too often the child I give birth to
and then abort....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)