Blue Eyes White

Famous quotes containing the words blue, eyes and/or white:

    “I have just come down from my father.
    Higher and higher he lies
    Above me in a blue light
    Shed by a tinted window.”
    —James Dickey (b. 1923)

    “We plunge
    O dark river!
    towards each other
    into that element
    a deep fall,
    the eyes closing as if forever....”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    “But could a dream send up through onion fumes
    Its white and violet, fight with fried potatoes
    And yesterday’s garbage ripening in the hall,
    Flutter, or sing an aria down these rooms
    Even if we were willing to let it in,”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)