Famous quotes containing the words stem and/or canker:
“Bite down
on the bitter stem of your nectared
rose, you know
the dreamy stench of death and fling
magenta shawls delicately
about your brown shoulders laughing.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“First try all other means, but if the wound
Heal not, then use the knife, lest to the clean
From the diseased the canker spread.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)