Silver Stars Faced

Famous quotes containing the words silver, stars and/or faced:

    “no thread
    Of cloudy silver sprinkles in your gown
    Its venom of renown, and on your head
    No crown is simpler than the simple hair.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “The stars are putting on their glittering belts.
    They throw around their shoulders cloaks that flash
    Like a great shadow’s last embellishment.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “All night I’ve held your hand,
    as if you had
    a fourth time faced the kingdom of the mad—
    its hackneyed speech, its homicidal eye—
    and dragged me home alive. . . .”
    —Robert Lowell (1917–1977)