Famous quotes containing the words james, gordon and/or brown:
“I am blackly bored when they are at large & at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway & we are deprived of them.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)
“A woman who ... gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover—but will sooner or later find a tyrant.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Bite down
on the bitter stem of your nectared
rose, you know
the dreamy stench of death and fling
magenta shawls delicately
about your brown shoulders laughing.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)