Piecemeal

Famous quotes containing the word piecemeal:

“Where and to whom
you are married I can only guess
in my piecemeal fashion. I grow old on my bitterness.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“Once we began to see our images
Reflected in the mud and even dust,
‘Twas disillusion upon disillusion.
We were lost piecemeal to the animals,
Like people thrown out to delay the wolves.
Nothing but fallibility was left us....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows
Alarms of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it?”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)