Black Set

Famous quotes containing the words black and/or set:

“On the middle of that quiet floor
sits a fleet of small black ships,
square-rigged, sails furled, motionless,
their spars like burned matchsticks.”
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)

“... the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)