Coarse

Famous quotes containing the word coarse:

““... But a coarse old man am I,
I choose the second-best,
I forget it all awhile
Upon a woman’s breast.”
Day-break and a candle end.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

“... and fierce in each disk
of coarse yellow the archaic
smile, almost
agony, almost
a boy’s grin.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)