Lost Broken Bones

Famous quotes containing the words lost, broken and/or bones:

    “Patty was a modest maid;
    Patty was of men afraid:
    Patty grew her fears to lose,
    And grew so brave, she lost her nose.”
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    “The others died, the luck of it blurting through them.
    I could not, I was a silly broken umbrella
    and oblivion would not kiss me. For three days it
    was thus.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “The eyes, opening and shutting like keyholes
    and never forgetting, recording by thousands,
    the skull with its brains like eels
    the tablet of the world
    the bones and their joints
    that build and break for any trick....”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)