Oiled Paper

Famous quotes containing the words oiled and/or paper:

“A king’s head is solemnly oiled at his coronation, even as a head of salad.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“Poems stirred
into paper coffee-cups, eaten
with petals on rye in the
sun—the cold shadows in back,
and the traffic grinding the
borders of spring ...”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)