He began to show us very old Anatolian fragments, the kind of tattered things that only subscribers to Hali, the magazine for antique rug buffs, can readily believe are auctioned at Sotheby's for $20,000 , $30,000 and $40,000
When Beg first sees the mikveh, the synagogue's ritual pool, with late afternoon sun falling through high windows on to its blue pillars and gold tiles, he feels an urge "To shed his old soul, that tattered, worn thing, and receive a new one in its stead.
His summation was a short, tattered, sad affair.
An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick.
In the Collected W. B. Yeats, which my eighth-grade class was studying in my absence, I had underlined and starred these lines: An aged man is but a paltry thing A tattered coat upon a stick, unless Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing.
Here in the two finest pieces in the book - "Sailing to Byzantium," which comes first, and the title-poem, which follows it – his dismay has passed into something at once more poignant and more triumphant: An aged man is but a paltry thing, A tattered coat upon a stick, unless Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing For every tatter in its mortal dress.
An aged man is but a paltry thing, A tattered coat upon a stick.
In the end, the family playfully fight over a tattered washcloth, the only thing they have left.
And aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick.
