Digging Quote by Seamus Heaney Download Open image ““Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.”” — Seamus Heaney ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Digging Poetry Writing
Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. ~from the poem "Digging — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“I could see the palm of Freddy’s hand tap the butt of his Glock. We do this to reorient our muscles and nerves so… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
“I rub the indents in my wrists where the handcuffs squeezed and see the gun,” — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“I had the whole road to myself, for no one was yet stirring, and I walked on, with a slouching, dogged gait. The gray shooting-jacket was on my back, and from the end of my brother’s rifle hung a small bundle of my clothes. My fingers worked moodily at the stock and trigger, and I thought that this indeed was… — Herman Melville Copy Share
“If I were to hold up a bank with my index finger and my thumb as the “gun,” then I hope I wouldn’t try… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“What the hell, I think. My pistol is on my hips and my balls are between my legs.” — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
“That’s the funny thing about guns; even untrained hands can feel powerful using them. But take that gun away and you’re left with nothing… — Jennifer Wilson Copy Share Image
“You don´t have to let it linger Within the palm of your hand, The tip's already in your finger: All beginning comes to an… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
“Before I grab your ass, I’ll take off my gloves. They’re cutting off circulation to my thighs.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“The pen is one of the most potent of weapons in a revolution” — rassool jibraeel snyman Copy Share Image
“I’m supposed to spread my fingers as wide as they were with the rubber band, mash my palms hard into the floor, and pull… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
You had to come back to learn how to lose yourself, to be pilot and stray-witch, Hansel and Gretel in one. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
If self is a location, so is love: Bearings taken, markings, cardinal points, Options, obstinacies, dug heels, and distance, Here and there and now… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Once I was on the job, once I had got started, I felt safe enough, but the anticipation made me tense. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
The external reality and inner dynamic of happenings in Northern Ireland between 1968 and 1974 were symptomatic of change, violent change admittedly, but change… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Hope for a great sea-change timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
One of the very first poems I wrote was Docker That fist would drop a hammer on a Catholic and one of the sturdiest… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Anything Can Happen is also, incidentally, a poem that arose from teaching. I'd talked about the Horace Ode (I, 34) [on which the poem… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Some people are like ants. Give them a warm day and a piece of ground and they start digging. There the similarity ends. Ants… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is. — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
From my image of digging around in the mud like a grunt, I preferred fighting the war from ships. — Haskell Wexler Copy Share Image
When you consider the sheer magnitude of investable equities to choose from in the world's emerging markets, you realize that finding one that looks… — Mark Mobius Copy Share Image
I love the little garden in the back of my family's brownstone in Brooklyn. Digging out there in the dirt is a joy for… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The Ancient One, as you know, is the master, is the Sorcerer Supreme, and [Doctor] Strange comes to learn how to heal himself and… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
I wish I lived back in the Old West days, because I'd save up my money for about twenty years so I could buy… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
I was a manual labourer. I figured out really early on that the value of my life could be determined by my hourly rate… — Cliff Curtis Copy Share Image
I've never met a girl who thinks like you." "A lot of people tell me that," she said, digging at a cuticle. "But it's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you don't break a hole through the brick wall, don't just start digging a new hole. Keep going until you break through that… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
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