Dried Shiitake Mushrooms

Famous quotes containing the words dried and/or mushrooms:

“Darkness; a desire to stretch, to scratch.
Then has the ? Then is it ? Nudge the thatch,
Displace the stiffened leaves: look out. How cold,
How dried a stillness....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“Not ringed but rare, not gilled but polyp-like, having sprung up
overnight—

These mushrooms of the gods, resembling human organs uprooted,
rooted only on the air,”
—William Jay Smith (b. 1918)