Dark Young

Famous quotes containing the words dark and/or young:

    The soul’s dark cottage, battered and decayed,
    Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made:
    Stronger by weakness, wiser men become
    As they draw near to their eternal home.
    Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view
    That stand upon the threshold of the new.
    Edmund Waller (1606–1687)

    her young years bungle past
    their same marriage bed
    and she wishes him cripple, or poet,
    or even lonely, or sometimes,
    better, my lover, dead.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)