White Man Sleeps

Famous quotes containing the words white, man and/or sleeps:

    Soft are the hands of Love,
    but what soft hands
    clutched at the thorny ground,
    scratched like a small white ferret
    or foraging whippet or hound.
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    A man that looks on glass,
    On it may stay his eye;
    Or if he pleaseth, through it pass,
    And then the heaven espy.
    George Herbert (1593–1633)

    A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
    Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)