Slow Left Arm

Famous quotes containing the words slow, left and/or arm:

    “I’d give all wealth that years have piled,
    The slow result of Life’s decay,
    To be once more a little child
    For one bright summer-day.”
    —Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

    “To minor authors is left the ornamentation of the commonplace: these do not bother about any reinventing of the world; they merely try to squeeze the best they can out of a given order of things, out of traditional patterns of fiction.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    “I dreamed of an out-thrust arm of land
    Where gulls blew over a wave
    That fell along miles of sand....”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)