Famous quotes containing the word blot:
“Lo, thus, as prostrate, In the dust I write
My hearts deep languor and my souls sad tears.
Yet why evoke the spectres of black night
To blot the sunshine of exultant years?”
—James Thomson (18341882)
“Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“Either disperse these mists, which blot and fill
My perspective, still, as they pass:
Or else remove me hence unto that hill
Where I shall need no glass.”
—Henry Vaughan (16221695)