Pound Shells

Famous quotes containing the words pound and/or shells:

“Learn of the green world what can be thy place
In scaled invention or true artistry,”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

“It is not easy to make our lives respectable by any course of activity. We must repeatedly withdraw into our shells of thought, like the tortoise, somewhat helplessly; yet there is more than philosophy in that.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)