Famous quotes containing the words desert and/or column:
“Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.”
—Théophile Gautier (1811–1872)
“I stand on top
of our back steps and breathe the rich air—
a mother skunk with her column of kittens swills the garbage pail.
She jabs her wedge-head in a cup
of sour cream, drops her ostrich tail,
and will not scare.”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)