Famous quotes containing the words brass and/or buttons:
“You could almost see the brass on her gleaming,
Not quite. The mist was to light what red
Is to fire. And her mainmast tapered to nothing,
Without teetering a millimeter’s measure.
The beads on her rails seemed to grasp at transparence.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“She hadn’t found the finger-bone she wanted
Among the buttons poured out in her lap.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)