Blade Spring

Famous quotes containing the words blade and/or spring:

    “I would not knock old fellows in the dust
    But there lay Captain Carpenter on his back
    His weapons were the old heart in his bust
    And a blade shook between rotten teeth alack.”
    —John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)

    “The buds swell imperceptibly, without hurry or confusion, as if the short spring days were an eternity.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)