Famous quotes containing the words silver and/or purity:
“A black pall, you know, with a silver cross on it, or R.I.P.—requiescat in pace—you know. That seems to me the most beautiful expression—I like it much better than ‘He is a jolly good fellow,’ which is simply rowdy.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)
“I know the purity of pure despair,
My shadow pinned against a sweating wall.”
—Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)