Famous quotes containing the words dark and/or tone:
“And a dark shift within the bone
Brings him the end he could not find.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“Whose are the truly labored sentences? From the weak and flimsy periods of the politician and literary man, we are glad to turn even to the description of work, the simple record of the month’s labor in the farmer’s almanac, to restore our tone and spirits.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)