Pound Shells

Famous quotes containing the words pound and/or shells:

“he had been born
In a half savage country, out of date;
Bent resolutely on wringing lilies from the acorn;”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

“It was the most wild and desolate region we had camped in, where, if anywhere, one might expect to meet with befitting inhabitants, but I heard only the squeak of a nighthawk flitting over. The moon in her first quarter, in the fore part of the night, setting over the bare rocky hills garnished with tall, charred, and hollow stumps or shells of trees, served to reveal the desolation.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)