Famous quotes containing the words high, wire and/or walk:
“How tall the buildings were as I began
To live, and how high the rain that battered them!”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“A new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces
More commonly it’s modeled of baling wire and acne.
More commonly it wheezes and tips over.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)
“And if I may not walk in th’ old ways and look on
th’ old faces
I wud sooner sleep.”
—Charlotte Mew (1870–1928)