Bare Knuckle

Famous quotes containing the words bare and/or knuckle:

    “The wonderful purity of nature at this season is a most pleasing fact.... In the bare fields and tinkling woods, see what virtue survives. In the coldest and bleakest places, the warmest charities still maintain a foothold.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The moon is door. It is a face in its own right,
    White as a knuckle and terribly upset.
    It drags the sea after it like a dark crime; it is quiet
    With the O-gape of complete despair.”
    —Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)