Quotes About Gauze

No moon, sun, diamond, hands — fingertip, dot, ray, gauze, sea. pine green, pink glass, eye, mine, eraser, mud, mother, I am coming.

The chimneys, rank on rank, cut the clear sky; the moon, with a rag of gauze about her loins, poses among them, an awkward Venus.

Depression gave me extreme perspicacity; rather than skin, it was as if I had only thin gauze bandages to shield me from everything I saw.

To hang our head ostensibly, And subsequent to find That such was not the posture Of our immortal mind, Affords the sly presumption That, in so dense a fuzz, You, too, take cobweb attitudes Upon a plane of gauze !

Soon the entire nebula was little more than a shawl of cosmic gauze thrown over a network of stars.

He's Gecko's little brother. No touchin' the little brother, Mal. That's a rule." "Tell that to Blake Manning," Tevyn said, because Mallory was busy fishing out a strip of T-shirt from the water. "Who's tha'?" "Guy who plays for my favorite band," Tevyn told him, taking his own strip of T-shirt to wash the vinyl now that Mal had stripped the old gauze.

The windows let in a perfect light, a vibrant light such as you get in the north, where a kind of grey gauze turns the sun to silver. And such solitude, such quiet.

there's this golden moment when the sun licks through the gauze fluttering at my window warming my eyes to open this golden moment when I'm not yet awake enough to remember that there are things I would rather forget

neatly at its foot, a gauze. I hear her gargling in the bathroom. My hands and feet are blue from the cold and I cannot see through the window for the frost and icicles. When Ana Iris starts

Sweat and death clung to the air thick as gauze.

tents whose lights inside shone nuclear at twilight, soullike, through the crosshatched walls, turning canvas to fine gauze, while the wind drummed there.

memories are nothing, soft as gauze against the ruthless razor-fineness of that edge, beautiful and lethal, one tiny slip and it'll slice to the bone. It

Grief from the war casts a shadow that at times was dense and at others seemed as pale as a length of gauze, but it was never gone.

Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.

The old lamps down Chartres Street like burning gauze in the fog.

Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.

I go to the movies as I'd go to the dawn, / and the triumphs there, the things that are brought to light, / the large, sad lives of people not so different from me, their stories heard / through a tumbler held to the ear / and seen through a gauze of falling sand— / these are my triumphs; I am brought to light. — Denis Johnson, from "Movie Within a Movie," The Veil: Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 1987)

It was august. for years it was august … . there was heat like wet gauze and a high, white sky and music coming from everywhere at once.