Carve

Famous quotes containing the word carve:

“Poets that lasting Marble seek
Must carve in Latine or in Greek,
We write in Sand, our Language grows,
And like the Tide our work o’erflows.”
—Edmund Waller (1606–1687)

“Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but he could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

“Am I the god?
or does this fire carve me
for its use?”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)