Peter Green Splinter

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

“Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one’s own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live. There is in men, as Peter Quennell said, “a centrifugal tendency.” In our wanderlust, we are lovers looking for consummation.”
—Anatole Broyard (1910–1990)

“the absolute flight and rest
The universal blue
And local green suggest.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

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