Bleak Book

Famous quotes containing the words bleak and/or book:

    “I knew the poor,
    I knew the hideous death they die,
    when famine lays its bleak hand on the door;
    I knew the rich,
    sated with merriment,
    who yet are sad.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “Everything that is printed and bound in a book contains some echo at least of the best that is in literature.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)