Holds

Famous quotes containing the word holds:

“An uncertain green,
Piano-polished, held the tranced machine

Of ocean, as a prelude holds and holds.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“Remember thee!
Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat
In this distracted globe.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“He holds him with his glittering eye—
The Wedding Guest stood still,
And listens like a three years’ child:
The Mariner hath his will.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)