Famous quotes containing the word tall:
“You ask what I have found and far and wide I go,
Nothing but Cromwells house and Cromwells murderous crew,
The lovers and the dancers are beaten into the clay,
And the tall men and the swordsmen and the horsemen where are they?”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“The tall camels of the spirit
Steer for their deserts,”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)
“Flick stands tall among the idiot pumps
Five on a side, the old bubble-head style,
Their rubber elbows hanging loose and low.”
—John Updike (b. 1932)
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