Colour Wire

Famous quotes containing the words colour and/or wire:

“No one knows the colour of a flower
till it is broken.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“God, I am caught in a snare!
I know not what fine wire is round my throat;
I only know I let him finger there
My pulse of life, and let him nose like a stoat
Who sniffs with joy before he drinks the blood.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)