Famous quotes containing the word blot:
“Either disperse these mists, which blot and fill
My perspective, still, as they pass:
Or else remove me hence unto that hill
Where I shall need no glass.”
—Henry Vaughan (1622–1695)
“This mangled, smutted semi-world hacked out
Of dirt . . . It is not possible for the moon
To blot this with its dove-winged blendings.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“Lo, thus, as prostrate, ‘In the dust I write
My heart’s deep languor and my soul’s sad tears.’
Yet why evoke the spectres of black night
To blot the sunshine of exultant years?”
—James Thomson (1834–1882)