Slant

Famous quotes containing the word slant:

“There’s a certain Slant of light,
Winter Afternoons—
That oppresses, like the Heft
Of Cathedral Tunes—”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

“The dead fed you
Amid the slant stones of graveyards.
Pale ghosts who planted you
Came in the night-time
And let their thin hair blow through your clustered stems.”
—Amy Lowell (1874–1925)

“I saw on the slant hill a putrid lamb,
Propped with daisies.”
—Richard Eberhart (b. 1904)