Quince/cultivation

Famous quotes containing the words quince and/or cultivation:

    Let the palings of her bed
    Be quince and box-wood overlaid
    with the scented bark of yew.
    That all the wood in blossoming,
    May calm her heart and cool her blood
    For losing of her maidenhood.
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    Let these memorials of built stone music’s
    enduring instrument, of many centuries of
    patient cultivation of the earth, of English
    verse ...
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)