Keen

Famous quotes containing the word keen:

“To the latter end of a fray and the beginning of a feast
Fits a dull fighter and a keen guest.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the best of us walk about well wadded with stupidity.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

“There’s keen delight in what we have:
The rattle of pebbles on the shore
Under the receding wave.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)