Letter Call Signs

Famous quotes containing the words letter, call and/or signs:

    “Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    “They are girls. Green girls.
    Death and life is their daily work.
    Death seams up and down the leaf.
    I call the leaves my death girls.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “Mister death who signs papers
    then eats
    telegraphs simply: Shoot them
    then eats”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)