Hem quotes
24 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining."
"[On the metaphysical:] ... I knew in some marvelous way I had touched the hem of the unknown. And being me, I wanted to lift that hemline a little bit more."
"Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must."
"Sweet April's tears, Dead on the hem of May."
"We need more true mystery in our lives Hem- he said. The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are the things we lack most. There is of course the problem of sustenance"
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"Grace arrived, like the big, loopy stitches with which a grandmotherly stranger might baste your hem temporarily."
