Banked Clay Oval

Famous quotes containing the words banked and/or clay:

“The rare original heartsblood goes,
Spends on the earthen hide, in the folds and wizenings, flows

In the gutters of the banked and staring eyes.”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)

“You may melt your metals and cast them into the most beautiful moulds you can; they will never excite me like the forms which this molten earth flows out into. And not only it, but the institutions upon it are plastic like clay in the hands of the potter.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)