White Silk

Famous quotes containing the words white and/or silk:

    “And when you sigh from kiss to kiss
    I hear white Beauty sighing, too,
    For hours when all must fade like dew....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “All-destroying sword-blade still
    Carried by the wandering fool.
    Gold-sewn silk on the sword-blade,
    Beauty and fool together laid.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)