Palm Swift

Famous quotes containing the words palm and/or swift:

    “When John Henry was a little fellow,
    You could hold him in the palm of your hand,
    He said to his pa, “When I grow up
    I’m gonna be a steel-driving man.
    Gonna be a steel-driving man.””
    —Unknown. John Henry (l. 1–5)

    “The broken ridge of the hills
    was the line of a lover’s shoulder,
    his arm-turn, the path to the hills,
    the sudden leap and swift thunder
    of mountain boulders, his laugh.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)