Retreating Blade

Famous quotes containing the words retreating and/or blade:

“Every moment of one’s existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)

“I would not knock old fellows in the dust
But there lay Captain Carpenter on his back
His weapons were the old heart in his bust
And a blade shook between rotten teeth alack.”
—John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)