Green Ash

Famous quotes containing the words green and/or ash:

    “I passed a tomb among green shades
    Where seven anemones with down-dropped heads
    Wept tears of dew upon the stone beneath.”
    —Unknown. The Thousand and One Nights.

    AWP. Anthology of World Poetry, An. Mark Van Doren, ed. (Rev. and enl. Ed., 1936)

    “Greasing the bodies of adulterers
    Like Hiroshima ash and eating in.
    The sin. The sin.”
    —Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)