Gleam

Famous quotes containing the word gleam:

    When man
    enters woman,
    like the surf biting the shore,
    again and again,
    and the woman opens her mouth in pleasure
    and her teeth gleam ...
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    Some moralist or mythological poet
    Compares the solitary soul to a swan;
    I am satisfied with that,
    Satisfied if a troubled mirror show it,
    Before that brief gleam of its life be gone....
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    Pushkin’s composition is first of all and above all a phenomenon of style, and it is from this flowered rim that I have surveyed its seep of Arcadian country, the serpentine gleam of its imported brooks, the miniature blizzards imprisoned in round crystal, and the many-hued levels of literary parody blending in the melting distance.
    Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)