Exchanging Pieces

Famous quotes containing the words exchanging and/or pieces:

    Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
    Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    I saw
    that from his lower lip
    if you could call it a lip—
    grim, wet, and weaponlike,
    hung five old pieces of fish-line,
    Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)