Holds

Famous quotes containing the word holds:

“thou mayst know,
That flesh is but the glass, which holds the dust
That measures all our time;”
—George Herbert (1593–1633)

“Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)

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

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