Birch Bark Manuscripts

Famous quotes containing the words birch, bark and/or manuscripts:

    “The birch begins to crack its outer sheath
    Of baby green and show the white beneath....”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “O my soul’s joy,
    If after every tempest come such calms,
    May the winds blow till they have wakened death!
    And let the laboring bark climb hills of seas
    Olympus-high, and duck again as low
    As hell’s from heaven!”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses.”
    —Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)