White Tie/elements

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

    “Knowing that you shall feel,
    about the frame,
    no trembling of the string
    but heat, more passionate
    of bone and the white shell
    and fiery tempered steel.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “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)

    “In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)