Famous quotes containing the words pipe, build and/or cake:
“When you can pipe that merry old strain,
Robert of Lincoln, come back again.”
—William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)
“For the first time I’m content to see
What poor mortar and bricks
I have to build with, knowing that I can
Never in seventy years be more a man
Than now a sack of meal upon two sticks.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“The first year was like icing.
Then the cake started to show through.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)