Darker

Famous quotes containing the word darker:

“But things get darker as we move
To ask them: Whom must we get to know
To die, so you live and we know?”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“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)

“I, too, sing America.

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