Black Stuff Gown

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

    “Black one, black one,
    there was a white
    candle in your heart.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    “Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me.”
    —G.C. (Georg Christoph)

    “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)