Bitter Gold

Famous quotes containing the words bitter and/or gold:

    “These ripe pears
    are bitter to the taste,
    this spiced wine, poison, corrupt.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

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