Black Stuff Gown

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

    “I can only see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art—or almost the only stuff.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “GOETHE, raised o’er joy and strife,
    Drew the firm lines of Fate and Life,
    And brought Olympian wisdom down
    To court and mar, to gown and town,
    Stooping, his finger wrote in clay
    The open secret of to-day.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)