Famous quotes containing the word darker:
“Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee,
While the worlds tide is bearing me along;
Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me,
Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.”
—Emily Brontë (18181848)
“I, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes.
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.”
—Langston Hughes (19021967)
“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)
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