Silken Quotes
39 quotes by 36 authors
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The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some people who are so blighted by their past,…
— Harlan Ellison
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love is a hawk with velvet claws love is a rock with heart and veins love is a lion with satin jaws love is a…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Danse Russe If I when my wife is sleeping and the baby and Kathleen are sleeping and the sun is a flame-white disc in silken…
— William Carlos Williams
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When I come out on the road of a morning, when I have had a night's sleep and perhaps a breakfast, and the sun lights…
— Frank Delaney
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A Strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow. The idea of sorrow has always appealed…
— Francoise Sagan
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Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and…
— John Donne
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My mother, she killed me, My father, he ate me, My sister Marlene, Gathered all my bones, Tied them in a silken scarf, Laid them…
— Jacob Grimm
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I never met your likeness. Jane: you please me, and you master me - you seem to submit, and I like the sense of pliancy…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Thus I, gone forth, as spiders do, In spider’s web a truth discerning, Attach one silken strand to you For my returning.
— Elwyn Brooks White
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The iron chain and the silken cord are both equally bonds.
— Friedrich Schiller
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And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me — filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; So that now, to…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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A spider lives inside my head Who weaves a strange and wondrous web Of silken threads and silver strings To catch all sorts of flying…
— Shel Silverstein
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Come live with me and be my love, and we will some new pleasures prove, of golden sands, and crystal beaches, with silken lines and…
— Unknown Author
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YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a…
— Ambrose Bierce
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When I was a Caterpillar, I was beautiful, profound, and aware. Yet only once I basked in my Cocoon, And reflected upon the true nature…
— Eric Nickel
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A special world for you and me A special bond one cannot see It wraps us up in its cocoon And holds us fiercely in…
— Unknown Author
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Show me the way Take me to love Things only heard now I want to feel My soul caressed by silken breeze Whisper secrets to…
— Show Me
Who Wrote These Silken Quotes
36 authors contributed a total of 39 Silken Quotes, led by these top contributors: