Famous quotes containing the words white, tie and/or elements:
“Listen world,
if youd just take the time to pick
the white fingers, the penny heart,
all would be well.
They are so unexpected.
They are as good as salt.”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
“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 (18861961)
“It is a life-and-death conflict between all those grand, universal, man-respecting principles which we call by the comprehensive term democracy, and all those partial, person-respecting, class-favoring elements which we group together under that silver-slippered word aristocracy. If this war does not mean that, it means nothing.”
—Antoinette Brown Blackwell (18251921)