Black Dress

Famous quotes containing the words black dress, black and/or dress:

“Ach, Mutter,
This old, black dress,
I have been embroidering
French flowers on it.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“Standing to America, bringing home
black gold, black ivory, black seed.”
—Robert Earl Hayden (1913–1980)

“Let us not deny it up and down. Providence has a wild, rough, incalculable road to its end, and it is of no use to try to whitewash its huge, mixed instrumentalities, or to dress up that terrific benefactor in a clean shirt and white neckcloth of a student of divinity.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)