Famous quotes containing the words william b and/or black:
“What made the drapery glisten so?
Not a man but Delacroix.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“A great black presence beats its wings in wrath.
Above the boneyard burn its golden eyes.
Some small grey fur is pulsing in its grip.”
—Anthony Hecht (b. 1923)