Famous quotes containing the words black, bears and/or rarely:
“This is the black sea-brute bulling through wave-wrack,”
—William Stanley Merwin (b. 1927)
“Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done. It is the chief and most memorable success, for history is but a prose narrative of poetic deeds.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Somewhere slightly before or after the close of our second decade, we reach a momentous milestonechildhoods end. We have left a safe place and cant go home again. We have moved into a world where life isnt fair, where life is rarely what it should be.”
—Judith Viorst (20th century)