Famous quotes containing the word barnes:
“We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasnt the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how lifes lived before it gets to the parlor door.”
—Djuna Barnes (18921982)
“The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.”
—Djuna Barnes (18921982)
“But no. Too soon I voun my charm abroke.
Noo comely soul in white like her
Noo soul a-steppen light like her
An nwone o comely height like her
Went by; but all my grief agean awoke.”
—William Barnes (18011886)
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