Linger

Famous quotes containing the word linger:

“You linger your little hour and are gone,
And still the woods sweep leafily on....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“All would be well
Could we but give us wholly to the dreams,
And get into their world that to the sense
Is shadow, and not linger wretchedly
Among substantial things....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)