Simple Black Dress

Famous quotes containing the words simple, black and/or dress:

    I went to a very militantly Republican grammar school and, under its influence, began to revolt against the Establishment, on the simple rule of thumb, highly satisfying to a ten-year-old, that Irish equals good, English equals bad.
    Bernadette Devlin (b. 1947)

    Ach, Mutter,
    This old, black dress,
    I have been embroidering
    French flowers on it.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    I know you not, this room never,
    the swollen dress I wear,
    nor the anonymous spoons that free me,
    nor this calendar nor the pulse we pare and cover.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)