Famous quotes containing the words smooth and/or newts:
“And theres a score of duchesses, surpassing womankind,
Or who have found a painter to make them so for pay
And smooth out stain and blemish with the elegance of his mind:
I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“Even the newts are white,
Those holy Joes.
And the fish, the fish
Christ! they are panes of ice.”
—Sylvia Plath (19321963)