Brown Summer Coat

Famous quotes containing the words brown, summer and/or coat:

    “Bite down
    on the bitter stem of your nectared
    rose, you know
    the dreamy stench of death and fling
    magenta shawls delicately
    about your brown shoulders laughing.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    “The summer that I was ten—
    Can it be there was only one
    summer that I was ten? It must

    have been a long one then—”
    —May Swenson (1919–1995)

    “When every Sunday afternoon
    On the Green Lands I walk
    And wear a coat in fashion,
    Memories of the talk
    Of hen wives and of queer old men
    Brace me and make me strong....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)