Laurie Faria Stolarz (1972) American writer
Source: White Is for Magic
Source: Sputnik Sweetheart
Laurie Faria Stolarz (1972) American writer
Source: White Is for Magic
“I would give you my soul in a blackberry pie; and a knife to cut it with.”
Dorothy Dunnett (1923–2001) British writer
Source: The Disorderly Knights
Lou Reed (1942–2013) American musician
What's Good Full lyrics online http://www.lyricsforall.com/display/lyric/7312/2147393643/Lou+Reed/What%27s+Good/ <br class="br">Lyrics
“The tongue, the Chinese say,
is like a sharp knife:
it kills
without drawing blood.”
Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States
"The Dead Heart"
The Awful Rowing Toward God (1975)
Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962) English writer and gardener
"And so it ends", quoted in V. Sackville-West : A Critical Biography (1974) by Michael Stevens, p. 91
“With my teeth
I have seized life
Upon the knife of my youth.”
René Char (1907–1988) 20th-century French poet
"Mute Game", as translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson in Guernica : a magazine of art & politics (June 2007)<!-- Stone Lyre (2010) -->
Context: With my teeth
I have seized life
Upon the knife of my youth.
With my lips today,
With my lips alone…