Sheets

Famous quotes containing the word sheets:

“The difference is wide that the sheets will not decide.”
—English proverb, collected in John Ray, English Proverbs (1670)

“the sheets and towels of a life we were going to share,
The milk-stiff bibs, the shroud, each rag to be ever
Trampled or soiled, bled on or groped for blindly,
Came swooning out of an enormous willow hamper
Onto moon-marbly boards.”
—James Merrill (b. 1926)

“Each month
the blood sheets down
like good red rain.”
—Erica Jong (b. 1942)