Warren Opera House

Famous quotes containing the words opera house, warren, opera and/or house:

    “The opera house sparkled with tiers
    And tiers of eyes, like mine enlarged by belladonna,”
    —James Merrill (b. 1926)

    “She blinks and croaks, like a toad or a Norn, in the horrible light,
    And rattles her crutch, which may put forth a small bloom, perhaps
    white.”
    —Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989)

    “A pretty air in an opera is prettier there than it could be anywhere else, I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “Though the house is full of
    candy bars the wasted ghost
    of my parents is poking
    the keyhole, rubbing the bedpost.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)