Bitter Gold

Famous quotes containing the words bitter and/or gold:

    “Tell me, how many hands have palpated the pulp that has grown so generously around your hard, bitter little soul?”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    “You are as gold
    as the half-ripe grain
    that merges to gold again.
    as white as the white rain....”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)