True Black

Famous quotes containing the words true and/or black:

“I thought, as I have my living to get, and have not eaten today, that I might go a- fishing. That’s the true industry for poets. It is the only trade I have learned.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“I only know that a rook
Ordering its black feathers can so shine
As to seize me senses, haul
My eyelids up, and grant

A brief respite from fear
Of total neutrality.”
—Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)