Famous quotes containing the words gas and/or house:
“Shielded, what sorts of life are stirring yet:
Legs lagged like drains, slippers soft as fungus,
The gas and grate, the old cold sour grey bed.”
—Philip Larkin (19221986)
“In my grandmothers house there was always chicken soup
And talk of the old countrymud and boards,
Poverty,
The snow falling down and necks of lovers.”
—Louis Simpson (b. 1923)