Black Stuff Gown

Famous quotes containing the words black, stuff and/or gown:

    “Soon,
    Light from a small intense lopsided moon
    Shows them, black as their shadows, sleeping so.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “There have been heroes for whom this world seemed expressly prepared, as if creation had at last succeeded; whose daily life was the stuff of which our dreams are made, and whose presence enhanced the beauty and ampleness of Nature herself.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Give me my scallop-shell of quiet,
    My staff of faith to walk upon,
    My scrip of joy, immortal diet,
    My bottle of salvation,
    My gown of glory, hope’s true gage,
    And thus I’ll take my pilgrimage.”
    —Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618)