Famous quotes containing the words van and/or ash:
“I passed a tomb among green shades
Where seven anemones with down-dropped heads
Wept tears of dew upon the stone beneath.”
—Unknown. The Thousand and One Nights.
AWP. Anthology of World Poetry, An. Mark Van Doren, ed. (Rev. and enl. Ed., 1936)
“The last cobwebs
of fog in the
black firtrees are flakes
of white ash in the world’s hearth.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)