Dirty Word

Famous quotes containing the words dirty and/or word:

    There is no release
    In a bodkin or disease,
    Nor can there be a work so great
    As that which cleans man’s dirty slate.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    my heart leaps
    in wonder.
    Cold, fresh, deep, I feel the word ‘water’
    spelled in my left palm.
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)