White Tie/elements

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

    One revelation has been made to the Indian, another to the white man.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    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)

    The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has kinetic force, it sets in motion ... [ellipsis in source] elements in the reader that would otherwise be stagnant.
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)