Consuming Breast Milk

Famous quotes containing the words consuming, breast and/or milk:

    “Say never the strong heart
    In the consuming breath
    Cries out unto the dark
    The skinny death.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “Swift beating on his breast in sibylline frenzy blind
    Because the heart in his blood-sodden breast had dragged him down into mankind ...”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “At first thou gav’st me milk and sweetnesses;
    I had my wish and way:
    My dayes were straw’d with flow’rs and happinesse;
    There was no month but May.
    But with my yeares sorrow did twist and grow,
    And made a partie unawares for wo.”
    —George Herbert (1593–1633)