White Canary

Famous quotes containing the words white and/or canary:

“On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore,
Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

“Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a word to compass these things, a world that is a long, brute game, then we bump against another mystery: the inrush of power and delight, the canary that sings on the skull.”
—Annie Dillard (b. 1945)