Bitter Gold

Famous quotes containing the words bitter and/or gold:

    To use bitter words, when kind words are at hand,
    Is like picking unripe fruit when the ripe fruit is there.
    Tiruvalluvar (c. 5th century A.D.)

    I am a lantern—
    My head a moon
    Of Japanese paper, my gold beaten skin
    Infinitely delicate and infinitely expensive.
    Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)