Touch me ‘til my ribs become piano keys, ‘til there is sheet music scrolled across the inside of my lungs.
It had never occurred to him that the body of a woman of fifty, blown up to monstrous dimensions by childbearing, then hardened, roughened by work til it was coarse in the grain like an overripe turnip, could be beautiful. But is was so, and after all, he thought, why not?
It don't stop 'til the casket drop.
I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on.
No freedom til we're equal. . . damn right I support it.
I think all poems are commissioned. They just come to me without somebody outside commissioning them. The idea comes and I will live with them 'til I get it as close to what I mean. I've never been totally satisfied. I've come close a few times.
The blues he sends to meet me, won't defeat me. It won't be long til happiness steps up to greet me.
I still feel like I have a lot of growing up to do 'til I find the voice. You know, everybody has their own voice and their own thing they want to say to the world.
To the field we are scattered from the day we are born to grow wild and sleep rough til from the earth we are torn.
I'm living life right now, maine and this what Imma do til it's over, til it's over. . but it's far from over.
Call no day happy 'til it is done; call no man happy til he is dead.
Nothing happens til something moves.
People think I must have all these superstitions, but I don't. I use my batting gloves 'til they wear out. I broke four or five bats during the streak, and I didn't cry over any of them.
As long as there's anybody that's poor or middle class, there will not be satisfaction that there are rich people. Not 'til we get rid of all the rich can we say we have finished the job.
My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.
Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning.
You risked your life, but what else have you ever risked? Have you risked disapproval? Have you ever risked economic security? Have you ever risked a belief? I see nothing particularly courageous about risking one's life. So you lose it, you go to your hero's heaven and everything is milk and honey 'til the end of time. Right? You get your reward and suffer no earthly consequences. That's not courage. Real courage is risking something that might force you to rethink your thoughts and suffer change and stretch consciousness. Real courage is risking one's clichés.
I made up my mind that I'd get out of that place and I didI learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there. If you want to go somewhere in life, you just have to work till you make it.
Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.
I was lost til you were found, but I never knew how far down I was falling before I reached the bottom.