White Scales

Famous quotes containing the words white and/or scales:

    “My age fallen away like white swaddling
    Floats in the middle distance, becomes
    An inhabited cloud.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “Love once
    Tipped the scales but now is shadowed, invisible,
    Though mysteriously present, around somewhere.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)