Soft Single Skin

Famous quotes containing the words soft, single and/or skin:

    “Once this soft turf, this rivulet’s sands,
    Were trampled by a hurrying crowd,”
    —William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)

    “the whole field is a
    white desire, empty, a single stem;
    a cluster, flower by flower,
    a pious wish to whiteness gone over—
    or nothing.”
    —William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)

    “they burned Joan
    and many, and many,
    burned at the stake,
    peeling their skin off,
    boiling their good red blood,
    their hearts like eggs....”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)