High Banked Clay

Famous quotes containing the words high, banked and/or clay:

    “Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace,
    The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe,
    The poor man’s wealth, the prisoner’s release,
    Th’indifferent judge between the high and low.”
    —Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)

    “The winter owl banked just in time to pass
    And save herself from breaking window glass.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “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)