Famous quotes containing the words amber and/or shirts:
“Swimmer of noonday, lean for the perfect dive
To the dead Mothers face, whose subtile down
You had not seen take amber light alive.”
—Allen Tate (18991979)
“... when I awake in the middle of the night, since I knew not where I was, I did not even know at first who I was; I only had in the first simplicity the feeling of existing as it must quiver in an animal.... I spent one second above the centuries of civilization, and the confused glimpse of the gas lamps, then of the shirts with turned-down collars, recomposed, little by little, the original lines of my self.”
—Marcel Proust (18711922)