Buttons

Famous quotes containing the word buttons:

“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)

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