Famous quotes containing the words black, moss and/or press:
“What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of a gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution.”
—Henri-Frédéric Amiel (18211881)
“so for your arrogance
and your ruthlessness
I am swept back
where dead lichens drip
dead cinders upon moss of ash....”
—Hilda Doolittle (18861961)
“Wits forge and fire-blast, meanings press and screw.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (17721834)
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