Shutter Curtain Shown

Famous quotes containing the words shutter, curtain and/or shown:

    “And there is nothing in the eye,
    Shut shutter of the mineral man
    Who takes the fatherless dark to bed,
    The acid sky to the brain-pan;
    And calls the crows to peck his head.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in, not out.”
    —Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

    “He had robbed the body of its taint, the world’s taunts of their sting; he had shown her the holiness of direct desire.”
    —E.M. (Edward Morgan)