Famous quotes containing the words david and/or pears:
“I never learned which party was victorious, nor the cause of the war; but I felt for the rest of that day as if I had had my feelings excited and harrowed by witnessing the struggle, the ferocity and carnage, of a human battle before my door.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The pears are not seen
As the observer wills.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)