Narrowly Missed

Famous quotes containing the words narrowly and/or missed:

    The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    I missed my chance with one of the lords
    Of life.
    And I have something to expiate;
    A pettiness.
    —D.H. (David Herbert)