Red Hook Houses

Famous quotes containing the words red, hook and/or houses:

    “Thou art not fair, for all thy red and white,
    For all those rosy ornaments in thee.
    Thou art not sweet, though made of mere delight”
    —Thomas Campion (1567–1620)

    “... with her shoulders as bare as a building,
    with her thin foot and her thin toes,
    with an old red hook in her mouth,
    the mouth that kept bleeding
    into the terrible fields of her soul . . .”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “The houses are haunted
    By white night-gowns.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)