Famous quotes containing the words plank and/or canoe:
“If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Like a canoe route across the great lake on whose shore
One is left trapped, grumbling not so much at bad luck as
Because only this one side of experience is ever revealed.
And that meant something.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)