Consuming Breast Milk

Famous quotes containing the words consuming, breast and/or milk:

    “Say never the strong heart
    In the consuming breath
    Cries out unto the dark
    The skinny death.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “On the grey rock of Cashel I suddenly saw
    A Sphinx with woman breast and lion paw,
    A Buddha, hand at rest,
    Hand lifted up that blest;
    And right between these two a girl at play
    That, it may be, had danced her life away....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “At first thou gav’st me milk and sweetnesses;
    I had my wish and way:
    My dayes were straw’d with flow’rs and happinesse;
    There was no month but May.
    But with my yeares sorrow did twist and grow,
    And made a partie unawares for wo.”
    —George Herbert (1593–1633)