Polished Cotton

Famous quotes containing the words polished and/or cotton:

    I could see that none were clumsy.
    I could see that each was tight and firm.
    Not one of them had trickled blood
    waiting as polished as gull beaks,
    as closed as all that.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    It is remarkable with what pure satisfaction the traveler in these woods will reach his camping-ground on the eve of a tempestuous night like this, as if he had got to his inn, and, rolling himself in his blanket, stretch himself on his six-feet-by-two bed of dripping fir twigs, with a thin sheet of cotton for roof, snug as a meadow-mouse in its nest.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)