Famous quotes containing the words charles, tupper, early and/or life:
“Downtown Manhattan, clear winter noon, and I’ve been up all night, talking, talking, reading the Kaddish aloud, listening to Ray Charles blues shout blind on the phonograph”
—Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)
“A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever.”
—Martin Tupper (1810–1889)
“No doubt they rose up early to observe
The rite of May.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“the sheets and towels of a life we were going to share,
The milk-stiff bibs, the shroud, each rag to be ever
Trampled or soiled, bled on or groped for blindly,
Came swooning out of an enormous willow hamper
Onto moon-marbly boards.”
—James Merrill (b. 1926)