Black Corded Silk

Famous quotes containing the words black and/or silk:

    “Black one, black one,
    there was a white
    candle in your heart.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    “O bid me mount and sail up there
    Amid the cloudy wrack,
    For Peg and Meg and Paris’ love
    That had so straight a back,
    Are gone away, and some that stay
    Have changed their silk for sack.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)