What are sheets?

Famous quotes containing the word sheets:

    “Each month
    the blood sheets down
    like good red rain.”
    —Erica Jong (b. 1942)

    “the sheets and towels of a life we were going to share,
    The milk-stiff bibs, the shroud, each rag to be ever
    Trampled or soiled, bled on or groped for blindly,
    Came swooning out of an enormous willow hamper
    Onto moon-marbly boards.”
    —James Merrill (b. 1926)

    “The difference is wide that the sheets will not decide.”
    —English proverb, collected in John Ray, English Proverbs (1670)