Famous quotes containing the word knew:
“I knew the poor,
I knew the hideous death they die,
when famine lays its bleak hand on the door;
I knew the rich,
sated with merriment,
who yet are sad.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“We knew how to get by on what comes along, but the idea
Warning, waiting there like a forest, not emptied, beckons.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“He knew human folly like the back of his hand,”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)