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)

    “If we could know
    Which of us, darling, would be the first to go,
    Who would be first to breast the swelling tide
    And step alone upon the other side—
    If we could know!”
    —Julia Harris May (1833–1912)

    “Mother,
    strange goddess face
    above my milk home,
    that delicate asylum,
    I ate you up.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)