Wild Cabbage

Famous quotes containing the words wild and/or cabbage:

    “There are other letters for the child to learn than those which Cadmus invented. The Spaniards have a good term to express this wild and dusky knolwedge, Grammatica parda, tawny grammar, a kind of mother-wit derived from that same leopard to which I have referred.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “All his happier dreams came true
    A small old house, wife, daughter, son,
    Grounds where plum and cabbage grew,
    Poets and Wits about him drew;
    “What then?”sang Plato’s ghost, “what then?””
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)