Famous quotes containing the words piercing and/or needle:
“Lord, thy most pointed pleasure take
And stab my spirit broad awake;
Or, Lord, if too obdurate I,
Choose thou, before that spirit die,
A piercing pain, a killing sin,
And to my dead heart run them in!”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (18501894)
“And so the needle pricked her fingers;
She fidgeted but didnt go;
A faint forgetfulness of reasons
Kept her with him. Time is slow.”
—Allen Tate (18991979)
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