Line Means Passing

Famous quotes containing the words line, means and/or passing:

“This wild night, gathering the washing as if it were flowers
animal vines twisting over the line and
slapping my face lightly, soundless merriment
in the gesticulations of shirtsleeves ...”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

“In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“On a day—alack the day—
Love, whose month is ever May,
Spied a blossom passing fair
Playing in the wanton air.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)