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)

    The painters did very well by her;
    it is true, they missed never a line
    of the suave turn of the head
    or subtle shade of lowered eye-lid
    or eye-lids half-raised.
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)