Lean

Famous quotes containing the word lean:

    “The lean cats of the arches of the churches,
    That’s the old world. In the new, all men are priests.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “I lean back, as the evening darkens and comes on.
    A chicken hawk floats over, looking for home.
    I have wasted my life.”
    —James Wright (1927–1980)

    “Falstaff sweats to death,
    And lards the lean earth as he walks along.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)