Silk Cocoons

Famous quotes containing the words silk and/or cocoons:

“Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall
She walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens,
And she is dying piecemeal
of a sort of emotional anemia.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

“In our rich consumers’ civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.”
—Max Lerner (b. 1902)