Peter Green Splinter

Famous quotes containing the words peter, green and/or splinter:

    “No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.”
    —Sir Peter Frederick Strawson (b. 1919)

    “Annihilating all that’s made
    To a green thought in a green shade.”
    —Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)

    “Let me be
    a splinter in your side
    or a bride.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)