Flakes

Famous quotes containing the word flakes:

“Some flakes have lost their way, and grope back upward, when
Meeting those meandering down they turn and descend again.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

“I have passed down the river before sunrise on a summer morning, between fields of lilies still shut in sleep; and when, at length, the flakes of sunlight from over the bank fell on the surface of the water, whole fields of white blossoms seemed to flash open before me, as I floated along, like the unfolding of a banner, so sensible is this flower to the influence of the sun’s rays.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Night sank: like flakes of silver fire
The stars in one great shower came down;”
—John Davidson (1857–1909)