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)

    “It was a green world,
    Unchanging holly with the curled
    Points, cypress and conifers,
    All that through the winter bears
    Coarsened fertility against the frost.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

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