World Oil

Famous quotes containing the words world and/or oil:

    “Aunt Jennifer’s tigers prance across a screen,
    Bright topaz denizens of a world of green.”
    —Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)

    “No skilled hands
    caress a stranger’s flesh with lucid oil before
    a word is spoken
    no feasting
    before a tale is told, before
    the stranger tells his name.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)