Slender

Famous quotes containing the word slender:

“Your slender attitude
Trembles not exquisite like limbs knife-skewed,”
—Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)

“What slender youth, bedewed with liquid odours
Courts thee on roses in some pleasant cave,
Pyrrha? For whom bind’st thou
In wreaths thy golden hair,
Plain in thy neatness?”
—Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65–8 B.C.)

“You are maiden,
no woman,
you are slender and faultless and rare,
you are child of my father,
how could I leave you.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)