Famous quotes containing the words dear and/or column:
“Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph—green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)
“I stand on top
of our back steps and breathe the rich air—
a mother skunk with her column of kittens swills the garbage pail.
She jabs her wedge-head in a cup
of sour cream, drops her ostrich tail,
and will not scare.”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)