Double Axe Handle

Famous quotes containing the words double, axe and/or handle:

    “The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.”
    —E.M. Cioran (b. 1911)

    “The treasures of Cathay were never found.
    In this America, this wilderness
    Where the axe echoes with a lonely sound,
    The generations labor to possess
    And grave by grave we civilize the ground.”
    —Louis Simpson (b. 1923)

    “By God, the old man could handle a spade.
    Just like his old man.”
    —Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)