Bright

Famous quotes containing the word bright:

“Your coat in my closet,
your bright stones on my hand,
the gaudy fur animals
I do not know how to use,
settle on me like a debt.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“Like bright metal on a sullen ground,
My reformation, glitt’ring o’er my fault,
Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes
Than that which hath no foil to set it off.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“The elect, the elected . . . they come here bright as dimes,
and die dishevelled and soft.”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)