Brittle Stars

Famous quotes containing the words brittle and/or stars:

“Night’s brittle song, silver-thin
Shatters into a billion fragments
Of quiet shadows
At the blaring jazz
Of a morning sun.”
—Frank Marshall Davis (b. 1905)

“The stars are pears
that no one can reach,
even for a wedding.
Perhaps for a death.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)