Painted Desert Visitor

Famous quotes containing the words painted, desert and/or visitor:

    “Like the moon her kindness is.
    If kindness I may call
    What has no comprehension in’t,
    But is the same for all
    As though my sorrow were a scene
    Upon a painted wall.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “This ripe rebuke, this burgeoning affluence
    Mocks me and mocks the desert of my bed.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “Beauty is ever to the lonely mind
    A shadow fleeting; she is never plain.
    She is a visitor who leaves behind
    The gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.”
    —Robert Nathan (1894–1985)