Narrow Black

Famous quotes containing the words narrow and/or black:

“Nuns fret not at their convent’s narrow room;”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

“The shadow of the Venetian blind on the painted wall,
Shadows of the snake-plant and cacti, the plaster animals,
Focus the tragic melancholy of the bright stare
Into nowhere, a hole like the black holes in space.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)