Backed Edge Blades

Famous quotes containing the words backed, edge and/or blades:

    “So that the old joy, modest as cake, as wine and friendship
    Will stay with us at the last, backed by the night
    Whose ruse gave it our final meaning.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “As I came to the edge of the woods,
    Thrush music—hark!
    Now if it was dusk outside,
    Inside it was dark.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “By the flow of the inland river,
    Whence the fleets of iron have fled,
    Where the blades of the grave-grass quiver,
    Asleep are the ranks of the dead:—”
    —Francis Miles Finch (1827–1907)