dragging quotes

  • Part of a moon was falling down the west, Dragging the whole sky with it to the hills.

    - Robert Lee Frost
      North of Boston,'The Death of the Hired Man'.

  • Le temps vole et m'emporte malgre   moi; j'ai beau vouloir le retenir, c'est lui qui m'entra|"ne; et cette pense  e me fait grande peur: vous devinez a'   peu pre'  s pourquoi. Time flies and takes me with it despite my efforts; I'd like to hold it back, but it keeps dragging me along and this thought frightens me greatly: you can perhaps guess why.

    - Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Se  vigne 
      Letter to the Comte de Bussy-Rabutin,12 Jul.

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