The Blade

Famous quotes containing the word blade:

    “And a wandering beauty is a blade out of its scabbard.
    You know how dangerous, gentlemen of threescore?
    May you know it yet ten more.”
    —John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)

    “It required some rudeness to disturb with our boat the mirror-like surface of the water, in which every twig and blade of grass was so faithfully reflected; too faithfully indeed for art to imitate, for only Nature may exaggerate herself.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)