Red Cliffs

Famous quotes containing the words red and/or cliffs:

“Her breasts under her gown
are cold,
for a flower has grown,
murex-red
on the red gown.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“So there stood Matthew Arnold and this girl
With the cliffs of England crumbling away behind them,
And he said to her, “Try to be true to me,
And I’ll do the same for you, for things are bad
All over, etc., etc.””
—Anthony Hecht (b. 1923)