Silk Mass

Famous quotes containing the words silk and/or mass:

    “Why silk is soft and the stone wounds
    The child shall question all his days,
    Why night-time rain and the breast’s blood
    Both quench his thirst he’ll have a black reply.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “the melodious but vast mass of today’s
    Writing ...”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)