Net Slum

Famous quotes containing the words net and/or slum:

“it was you untying the snarls and knots,
the webs, all bloody and gluey;
you with your twelve tongues and twelve wings
beating, wresting, beating, beating
your way out of childhood,
that airless net that fastened you down.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“... several generations of slum environment will produce a slum heredity ...”
—Albion Fellows Bacon (1865–1933)