Famous quotes containing the words wild, goose and/or pagoda:
“After which you led me to water
And bade me drink, which I did, owing to your kindness.
You would not let me out for two days and three nights,
Bringing me books bound in wild thyme and scented wild grasses
As if reading had any interest for me ...”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“I don’t use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom.”
—Jay Dratler, U.S. screenwriter, Samuel Hoffenstein (1889–1947)
“One is sick at heart of this pagoda worship. It is like the beating of gongs in a Hindoo subterranean temple.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)