Pure Blood

Famous quotes containing the words pure and/or blood:

“There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)

“The blood congealing
black
between the pleased fingers.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)