Clean Room Reverse

Famous quotes containing the words clean room, clean, room and/or reverse:

“Your head was
radiant in its emptiness,
a small clean room.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

“I come back to your youth, my Nana,
as if I might clean off
the mad woman you became,
withered and constipated,
howling into your own earphone.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“How full of trifles everything is! It is only one’s thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“During the late war [the American Revolution] I had an infallible rule for deciding what [Great Britain] would do on every occasion. It was, to consider what they ought to do, and to take the reverse of that as what they would assuredly do, and I can say with truth that I was never deceived.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)