Crow Pheasant Award

Famous quotes containing the words crow, pheasant and/or award:

    Here the crow starves, here the patient stag
    Breeds for the rifle.
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    As our domestic fowls are said to have their original in the wild pheasant of India, so our domestic thoughts have their prototypes in the thoughts of her philosophers.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.
    Robert Graves (1895–1985)