Mould

Famous quotes containing the word mould:

“I—this thought which is called I—is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

“While this America settles in the mould of its vulgarity, heavily
thickening to empire,
And protest, only a bubble in the molten mass, pops and sighs out,
and the mass hardens,”
—Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)