Fiber Pain

Famous quotes containing the words fiber and/or pain:

“I am an invisible man.... I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids—and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.”
—Ralph Ellison (b. 1914)

“How had I come to be here,
like them, and overhear
a cry of pain that could have
got loud and worse but hadn’t?”
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)