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)

    “The night whose sable breast relieves the stark,
    White stars, is no less lovely being dark,”
    —Countee Cullen (1903–1946)

    “The roof of England fell
    Great Paris tolled her bell
    And China staunched her milk and wept for bread”
    —Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)