Famous quotes containing the words david and/or pears:
“He wrote in prison, not a History of the World, like Raleigh, but an American book which I think will live longer than that. I do not know of such words, uttered under such circumstances, and so copiously withal, in Roman or English or any history.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The pears are not seen
As the observer wills.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)