Buttons

Famous quotes containing the word buttons:

“She hadn’t found the finger-bone she wanted
Among the buttons poured out in her lap.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“Ah, my dear Madam, ah, “Mr.” Serge Solntsev, how easy it is to guess that the author’s name is a pseudonym, that the author is not a man! Every sentence of yours buttons to the left.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

“With crayons the child draws a rigid house
and a winding pathway. Then the child
puts in a man with buttons like tears”
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)