Lean

Famous quotes containing the word lean:

“Never to walk from the station’s lamps and laurels
Carrying my father’s lean old leather case
Crumbling like the register at the hotel....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“You are the one
Solid the spaces lean on, envious.
You are the baby in the barn.”
—Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)

“As they lean over the beans in their rented back room that
is full of beads and receipts and dolls and cloths,
tobacco crumbs, vases and fringes.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)