Flakes

Famous quotes containing the word flakes:

“Abba, dark death is the breaking of a glass.
The dazzled flakes and splinters disappear.
The seal is as relaxed as dirt, perdu.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“When men were all asleep the snow came flying,
In large white flakes falling on the city brown,
Stealthily and perpetually settling and loosely lying,
Hushing the latest traffic of the drowsy town;”
—Robert Bridges (1844–1930)

“There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow- storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)