Famous quotes containing the words black, bears and/or rarely:
“There with vast wings across the canceled skies,
There in the sudden blackness the black pall
Of nothing, nothing, nothing—nothing at all.”
—Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)
“The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person’s name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.”
—Stephen Vizinczey (b. 1933)
“Words are like leaves; and where they most abound,
Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)