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)

“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)

“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)