White Tie/elements

Famous quotes containing the words white, tie and/or elements:

    I want a place where I can sit back in the rocker and say, “Do you remember when we picketed the White House in 1965?”
    Barbara Gittings (b. 1932)

    Helpless and overwrought,
    she would fasten
    the rope-noose about the beam
    above her bride-couch
    and tie it to her white throat....
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    Icebergs behoove the soul
    (both being self-made from elements least visible
    to see them so; fleshed, fair, erected indivisible.
    Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)