Plank

Famous quotes containing the word plank:

“Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersets, but the savage stands on the unelastic plank of famine.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Colonel Shaw
and his bell-cheeked Negro infantry
on St. Gaudens shaking Civil War relief,
propped by a plank splint against the garage’s earthquake.”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

“If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)