Saints Wore Black

Famous quotes containing the words saints, wore and/or black:

    “The Saints come,
    as human as a mouth,
    with a bag of God in their backs,
    like a hunchback,
    they come,
    they come marching in.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs.”
    —William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

    “I myself saw furious with blood
    Neoptolemus, at his side the black Atridae,
    Hecuba and the hundred daughters, Priam
    Cut down, his filth drenching the holy fires.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)