Famous quotes containing the words dead hands, dead, hands and/or rising:
“White
Godiva, I unpeel—
Dead hands, dead stringencies.”
—Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)
“For men were born to pray and save:
Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone,
It’s with O’Leary in the grave.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Her hands are not strong enough
Her hands will fall to her sides
And no wind will trouble to break her grief.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“Yet would we die as some have done:
Beating a way for the rising sun.”
—Arna Bontemps (1902–1973)