“lay down. lay down like an animal and wait.”
“Oppression lays down blood-lust. It lays it down like a wine.”
“Sometime I’ll lay down my wrath, As I lay my body down Between the ache of breath and breath, Golden slumber in the bone.”
“If you lay down and act like a doormat... then you are sure to get walked on.”
“Lay me down like a stone oh God, and raise me up like a new bread".”
“As a boy I got the idea that death was an animal which lay curled inside waiting to swallow us.”