Line Sheet Bronze

Famous quotes containing the words line, sheet and/or bronze:

    “I said: “A line will take us hours maybe;
    Yet if it does not seem a moment’s thought,
    Our stitching and unstitching has been naught.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “No Time, spoke the clocks, no God, rang the bells,
    I drew the white sheet over the islands
    And the coins on my eyelids sang like shells.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “Both nuns and mothers worship images,
    But those the candles light are not as those
    That animate a mother’s reveries,
    But keep a marble or a bronze repose.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)