Strange Tales Annual

Famous quotes containing the words strange, tales and/or annual:

    a
    turbulent moon-ridden girl
    or old woman, or both,
    dressed in opals and rags, feathers
    and torn taffeta,
    who knows strange songs....
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    Are you there, Africa with the bulging chest and oblong thigh? Sulking Africa, wrought of iron, in the fire, Africa of the millions of royal slaves, deported Africa, drifting continent, are you there? Slowly you vanish, you withdraw into the past, into the tales of castaways, colonial museums, the works of scholars.
    Jean Genet (1910–1986)

    Time that scatters hair upon a head
    Spreads the ice sheet on the shaven lawn;
    Signing an annual permit for the frost....
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)