Polished Stone

Famous quotes containing the words polished and/or stone:

    “I could see that none were clumsy.
    I could see that each was tight and firm.
    Not one of them had trickled blood
    waiting as polished as gull beaks,
    as closed as all that.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “Heavy we are, our flesh
    of stone and velvet goes down,
    goes down.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)