Red Undertail Coverts

Famous quotes containing the words red and/or coverts:

    “What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?”
    —Isak Dinesen [Karen Blixen] (1885–1962)

    “On short, still days
    At the shut of the year
    We search the pathways
    Where the coverts were.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)