Bitter Herbs

Famous quotes containing the words bitter and/or herbs:

    Where had her sweetness gone?
    What fanatics invent
    In this blind bitter town,
    Fantasy or incident
    Not worth thinking of,
    Put her in a rage.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    Bear only perfumes and the scent
    Of healing herbs to just men’s fields!
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)