Silver Stars

Famous quotes containing the words silver and/or stars:

    “By right or wrong,
    Lands and goods go to the strong.
    Property will brutely draw
    Still to the proprietor;
    Silver to silver creep and wind,
    And kind to kind.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “the gray filth of it:
    the knowledge that humankind,
    delicate Man, whose flesh
    responds to a caress, whose eyes
    are flowers that perceive the stars ...”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)