Wordplay Quote by A.R. Ammons Download Open image ““The oppressed grows weightless: doze/n th/rough c/and/or man/aged leg/ions stud/ents”” — A.R. Ammons ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Wordplay
“(Note the hunched position of the Egyptian farmer who, much like the ox, spent his life in hard labour oppressive to his body, his… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Human life and human labour were near. I must struggle on: strive to live and bend to toil like the rest.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Mankind in the aggregate I have found to be brutish, ignorant and unkind, whether those qualities were covered by the coarse tunic of the peasant of the white and purple toga of a senator. And yet in the weakest of men, in moments when they are alone and themselves, I have found veins of strength like gold in decaying rock;… — John Williams Copy Share
“Being a minority in both caste and class, we moved about anyway on the hem of life, struggling to consolidate our weaknesses and hang… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“The enslavement of his weaker brethren – the labour of those who do not enjoy, for the enjoyment of those who do not labour… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“... people who work themselves to the bone and when they produce young they preach to the young the gospel of work - which… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Something breaks under my boot, and I know before I look down what I’ll see. Bones. Human skulls, femurs, ribs. The bones of otherthings… — Caitlin Kittredge Copy Share Image
“Only a morbid society without aesthetic values, exercises itself, in war scenarios.” — sir kristian goldmund aumann Copy Share Image
“Logic and morality made it impossible to accept an illogical and immoral reality; they engendered a rejection of reality which as a rule led… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“Culture in the broadest sense includes all the labor which human power expends on nature.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
When we consider the weak and nerveless periods of some literary men, who perchance in feet and inches come up to the standard oftheir… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Equilibrations If you walk back and forth through a puddle pretty soon you wet the whole driveway but of course dry the puddle up.” — A.R. Ammons Copy Share Image
“It was May before my attention came to spring and my word I said to the southern slopes I've missed it, it came and… — A.R. Ammons Copy Share Image
“not so much looking for the shape as being available to any shape that may be summoning itself through me from the self not… — A.R. Ammons Copy Share Image
“You came one day and as usual in such matters significance filled everything- your eyes, the things you knew, the way you turned, leaned,… — A.R. Ammons Copy Share Image
“Reflective I found a weed that had a mirror in it and that mirror looked in at a mirror in me that had a… — A.R. Ammons Copy Share Image
“Where I am going, nothing of me will remain: yet, I'll drift through the voices of coyotes, drip into florets by a mountain rock.” — A.R. Ammons Copy Share Image
“You are everywhere partial and entire. You are on the inside of everything and on the outside.” — A.R. Ammons Copy Share Image
In the 1998 Oscars, I found myself in the bathroom in a stall, next to Tom Selleck. So I leaned over and I said… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
I've never belonged to any group that didn't have at least one member who wasn't a total dick. — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
“How are you going to make it move? It doesn't have a – " "Be very quiet," advised the duke, "for it goes without… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
...Mr. Wodehouse is a prose stylist of such startling talent that Frankie nearly skipped around with glee when she first read some of his… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
though I be but the prince of Wales, yet I am king of courtesy — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
You know what they say about big hitters...the woods are full of them. — Jimmy Demaret Copy Share Image
How come nobody ever talks about getting the long end of the stick? How can you even tell which end is which? — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
“I don't think you understand," said Milo timidly as the watchdog growled a warning. "We're looking for a place to spend the night." "It's not yours to spend," the bird shrieked again, and followed it with the same horrible laugh. "That doesn't make any sense, you see—" he started to explain. "Dollars or cents, it's still not yours to spend,"… — Norton Juster Copy Share
“If a UFO did land, and invite me onboard, I'd love to have the balls to go in. So, I search the skies for… — Kelli Jae Baeli Copy Share Image
Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word. — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
