Miner Forty Niner

Famous quotes containing the words miner and/or forty:

    “Many a miner has gone
    into the deep pit
    to receive the dust of a kiss,
    an ore-cell.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “To value the tradition of, and the discipline required for, the craft of fiction seems today pointless. The real Arcadia is a lonely, mountainous plateau, overbouldered and strewn with the skulls of sheep slain for vellum and old bitten pinions that tried to be quills. It’s forty rough miles by mule from Athens, a city where there’s a fair, a movie house, cotton candy.”
    —Alexander Theroux (b. 1940)