Reed

Famous quotes containing the word reed:

    “It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At ... moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.”
    —Alice James (1848–1892)

    “And the frigid burnings of purgatory will not be touched
    By any emollient.”
    —Henry Reed (1914–1986)

    “the hunger of this poem is legendary
    it has taken in many victims
    back off from this poem
    it has drawn in yr feet
    back off from this poem
    it has drawn in yr legs”
    —Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)