Core Wound

Famous quotes containing the words core and/or wound:

    “The threadbare trees, so poor and thin,
    They are no wealthier than I;
    But with as brave a core within
    They rear their boughs to the October sky.
    Poor knights they are which bravely wait
    The charge of Winter’s cavalry,
    Keeping a simple Roman state,
    Discumbered of their Persian luxury.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “For this ignorance of me
    Seems a kind of innocence.
    Fast enough I shall wound it....”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)