Blue Asbestos

Famous quotes containing the words blue and/or asbestos:

    “I have just come down from my father.
    Higher and higher he lies
    Above me in a blue light
    Shed by a tinted window.”
    —James Dickey (b. 1923)

    “Despite my asbestos gloves,
    the cough is filling me with black,
    and a red powder seeps through my veins....”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)