Diamond Heart Spade

Famous quotes containing the words diamond, heart and/or spade:

    “Masts in the offing wagged their tops;
    The swinging waves pealed on the shore;
    The saffron beach, all diamond drops
    And beads of surge, prolonged the roar.”
    —John Davidson (1857–1909)

    ““How goes it?” Heart replied,
    “Right as a Ribstone Pippin!””
    —Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953)

    “The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap
    Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge
    Through living roots awaken in my head.
    But I’ve no spade to follow men like them.”
    —Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)