They had to call and call And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
O to be a dragon, a symbol of the power of Heaven-of silk-worm size or immense; at times invisible. Felicitous phenomenon! — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it,… — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
What’s life in this nation? Collect emptiness in a household of cornflakes. Transient fuel gobbles attention, the television aches, the truth walks.… — Steve Aylett Copy Share Image
Let but the public mind become once thoroughly corrupt, and all attempts to secure property, liberty or life, by mere force of… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
That the play is the tragedy, “Man,” And its hero, the Conqueror Worm. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb? — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I'm sure I've been a toad, one time or another. With bats, weasels, worms...I rejoice in the kinship. Even the caterpillar I… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When you collect marine animals there are certain flat worms so delicate that they are almost impossible to catch whole for they… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Memories must enter the bloodstream, must churn awhile through the heart's mill, must be crushed and polished, be nearly forgotten or cling… — Keith Miller Copy Share Image
...then he looked at my T-shirt and saw Byron's picture on it and he quoted "She Walks in Beauty," which is like… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
And Death fell with me, like a deepening moan. And He, picking a manner of worm, which half had hid Its bruises… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
BODY-SNATCHER, n. A robber of grave-worms. One who supplies the young physicians with that with which the old physicians have supplied the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Isn't it nice to know that you can put a worm on your hook and get a fish all charged up? — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the… — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
To strip a man of all loyalties but those to the state, makes him not only a worm but a monster, without… — Haniel Long Copy Share Image
APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought. — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
