Yellow Subterranean Ant

Famous quotes containing the words yellow, subterranean and/or ant:

    “Pigeons on the grass alas.
    Pigeons on the grass alas.
    Short longer grass short longer longer shorter yellow
    grass Pigeons large pigeons on the shorter longer yellow grass
    alas pigeons on the grass.”
    —Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

    “So this is the subterranean life.
    If it can’t be conjugated onto us, what good is it?
    What need for purists when the demotic is built to last,
    To outlast us, and no dialect hears us?”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes,
    Observe her labours, sluggard, and be wise.”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)