Famous quotes containing the words brown and/or coal:
“Me did he send a love-letter,
He sent it from the town,
Saying no more he loved me,
For that I was so brown.”
—Unknown. The Brown Girl (l. 912)
“And in their blazing solitude
The stars sang in their sockets through the night:
Blow bright, blow bright
The coal of this unquickened world.”
—Philip Larkin (19221986)