Acquire Merrill

Famous quotes containing the words acquire and/or merrill:

“One can acquire everything in solitude except character.”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)

“the sheets and towels of a life we were going to share,
The milk-stiff bibs, the shroud, each rag to be ever
Trampled or soiled, bled on or groped for blindly,
Came swooning out of an enormous willow hamper
Onto moon-marbly boards.”
—James Merrill (b. 1926)