Dresses Quote by Wallace Stevens

“Think how nature makes things compared to how we humans make things." We talked about how animals don't just preserve the next generation; they…

— William Powers

“And this all causes her to wonder at the disparity between the silk dresses and the natural postures of the body, and to think:…

— Anita Shreve

From cane reeds, sugar. From a worm's cocoon, silk. Be patient if you can, and from sour grapes will come something sweet.

— Rumi

Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow'st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the…

— William Shakespeare

O to be a dragon, a symbol of the power of Heaven-of silk-worm size or immense; at times invisible. Felicitous phenomenon!

— Marianne Moore

The Silk Worm I stood before a silk worm one day. And that night my heart said to me, "I can do things like…

— Rumi

The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps rolling through…

— Anthony Burgess

International friendly games are not worth the lives of the silk worms who perish to make the pennants. They do not even have the…

— Danny Baker

The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of…

— Arthur Rimbaud

A poet who makes use of a worse word instead of a better, because the former fits the rhyme or the measure, though it…

— Horace Walpole

“Love doesn’t make you a poet; it makes you poetry.”

— Yarro Rai

“A poet makes himself a visionary through a long, boundless, and systematized disorganization of all the senses. All forms of love, of suffering, of…

— Arthur Rimbaud