Brittle

Famous quotes containing the word brittle:

“Lord, how can man preach thy eternall word?
He is a brittle crazie glasse:
Yet in thy temple thou dost him afford
This glorious and transcendent place,
To be a window, through thy grace.”
—George Herbert (1593–1633)

“Weed, moss-weed,
root tangled in sand,
sea-iris, brittle flower.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“Night’s brittle song, silver-thin
Shatters into a billion fragments
Of quiet shadows
At the blaring jazz
Of a morning sun.”
—Frank Marshall Davis (b. 1905)