Darker

Famous quotes containing the word darker:

“I, too, sing America.

I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,”
—Langston Hughes (1902–1967)

“Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee,
While the world’s tide is bearing me along;
Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me,
Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.”
—Emily Brontë (1818–1848)

“So they, who climb to wealth, forget
The friends in darker fortunes tried.
I copied them—but I regret
That I should ape the ways of pride.”
—William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)