Famous quotes containing the words pink, flower and/or petals:
“The word conservative is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable, smug, sanctimonious, naive, guilt-ridden, wet, pink orthodoxy of that sunset home of the third-rate minds of that third-rate decade, the nineteen-sixties.”
—Norman Tebbit (b. 1931)
“the whole field is a
white desire, empty, a single stem;
a cluster, flower by flower,
a pious wish to whiteness gone over
or nothing.”
—William Carlos Williams (18831963)
“the petals creak and
begin to rise.
They rise and recurl
to a buds form
and clamp shut.
I wait in the dark.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
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