Famous quotes containing the word rough:
“This luxury of the precocious child,
Times precious chronic invalid,
would we, darlings, resign it if we could?
Our blight has been our sinecure:
mere talent was enough for us
glitter in fragments and rough drafts.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“That rough tooth of the sea, Kineo, great source of arrows and of spears to the ancients, when weapons of stone were used.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Ive stayed in the front yard all my life.
I want a peek at the back
Where its rough and untended and hungry weed grows.
A girl gets sick of a rose.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
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