Purple Kick

Famous quotes containing the words purple and/or kick:

“How clean the sun when seen in its idea,
Washed in the remotest cleanliness of a heaven
That has expelled us and our images . . .
The death of one god is the death of all.
Let purple Phoebus lie in umber harvest,
Let Phoebus slumber and die in autumn umber....”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“I had to kick their law into their teeth in order to save them.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)