Wooden Sticks

Famous quotes containing the words wooden and/or sticks:

“Two wooden tubs of blue hydrangeas stand at the foot of the stone steps.
The sky is a blue gum streaked with rose. The trees are black.
The grackles crack their throats of bone in the smooth air.
Moisture and heat have swollen the garden into a slum of bloom.
Pardie! Summer is like a fat beast, sleepy in mildew....”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“A fat stomach sticks out too far, Monsieur La Rue. It prevents you from looking down and seeing what is going on around you.”
—Norman Reilly Raine (1895–1971)