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Bones Quotes - Page 7

Death's a fierce meadowlark: but to die having made / Something more equal to the centuries / Than muscle and bone, is mostly to shed weakness.

Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (2001). “The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers”, p.20, Stanford University Press

Caves and darkness can't hold you when you die, they can only hold your bones.

N. D. Wilson (2008). “Leepike Ridge”, p.139, Random House Books for Young Readers

You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.

Miller Williams (1997). “The Ways We Touch: Poems”, p.55, University of Illinois Press

I'm one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.

Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Map: Collected and Last Poems”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The dog won't bite if you beat Him with a bone

Song: Lowside of the Road, Album: Mule Variations, 1999

Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.

Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, Faber & Faber