Spade Tells

Famous quotes containing the words spade and/or tells:

“The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap
Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge
Through living roots awaken in my head.
But I’ve no spade to follow men like them.”
—Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)

“Yes—oh, dear, yes—the novel tells a story.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)