Cut Stone

Famous quotes containing the words cut stone, cut and/or stone:

    “and a man climbing
    must scrape his knees, and bring
    the grip of his hands into play. The cut stone
    consoles his groping feet. Wings brush past him.
    The poem ascends.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    “The narcissus has copied the arch
    of your slight breast:
    your feet are citron-flowers,
    your knees, cut from white-ash,
    your thighs are rock-cistus.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.”
    —Elizabeth I (1533–1603)