Silver Gray

Famous quotes containing the words silver and/or gray:

    “They unhook their heavy swords
    From golden and silver boughs;
    But all that are killed in battle
    Awaken to life again.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “the gray filth of it:
    the knowledge that humankind,
    delicate Man, whose flesh
    responds to a caress, whose eyes
    are flowers that perceive the stars ...”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)