Word Burst

Famous quotes containing the words word and/or burst:

“... ideals, standards, aspirations,—those are chameleon words, and take color from their speakers,—often false tints. A scholarly man of my acquaintance once told me that he traveled a thousand miles into the desert to get away from the word uplift, and it was the first word he heard after he reached his destination.”
—Carolyn Wells (1862–1942)

“Black flowers burst out wherever the night has knelt.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)