Starting Hands

Famous quotes containing the words starting and/or hands:

    “But even at the starting post, all sleek and new,
    I saw the wildness in her and I thought
    A vision of terror that it must live through
    Had shattered her soul.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Her hands intend no harm:
    Her hands devote themselves
    To sheltering a flame....”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)