Famous quotes containing the words black and/or burst:
“the black wings
of the
hospital where
nothing
will grow”
—William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)
“I stand amid the dust o’ the mounded years—
My mangled youth lies dead beneath the heap,
My days have crackled and gone up in smoke,
Have puffed and burst as sun-starts on a stream.”
—Francis Thompson (1859–1907)