Famous quotes containing the word blot:
“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 (1622–1695)
“It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid.... Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one’s inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.”
—Coleman Dowell (1925–1985)
“O to blot out this garden
to forget, to find a new beauty
in some terrible
wind-tortured place.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)