Shadow Red

Famous quotes containing the words shadow and/or red:

“I was the shadow of the waxwing slain
By the false azure in the windowpane;
I was the smudge of ashen fluff—and I
Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

“their red cloaks
wrapped tight to the bone”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)