Peter Green Splinter

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

    “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper;
    A peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked.
    If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper,
    Where’s the peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked?”
    —Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers (l. 1–4)

    “The body dies; the body’s beauty lives.
    So evenings die, in their green going,
    A wave, interminably flowing.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

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