Branch Dead Diamond

Famous quotes containing the words branch, dead and/or diamond:

    “What can the dove of Jesus give
    You now but wisdom, exile? Stand and live,
    The dove has brought an olive branch to eat.”
    —Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

    “Dreams pursue death as winds a flying fire,
    Our dreams pursue our dead and do not find.”
    —A.C. (Algernon Charles)

    “A poet who makes use of a worse word instead of a better, because the former fits the rhyme or the measure, though it weakens the sense, is like a jeweller, who cuts a diamond into a brilliant, and diminishes the weight to make it shine more.”
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)