Sour Taste

Famous quotes containing the words sour and/or taste:

“I stand on top
of our back steps and breathe the rich air—
a mother skunk with her column of kittens swills the garbage pail.
She jabs her wedge-head in a cup
of sour cream, drops her ostrich tail,
and will not scare.”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

“Our taste is too delicate and particular. It says nay to the poet’s work, but never yea to his hope.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)