Silver Birch Award

Famous quotes containing the words silver, birch and/or award:

    ““Of fayre Elisa be your silver song,
    That blessed wight:
    The flowre of virgins, may shee florish long
    In princely plight.”
    —Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)

    “The birch begins to crack its outer sheath
    Of baby green and show the white beneath....”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.”
    —Robert Graves (1895–1985)