Polished Stone

Famous quotes containing the words polished and/or stone:

“Some poems are for holidays only. They are polished and sweet, but it is the sweetness of sugar, and not such as toil gives to sour bread. The breath with which the poet utters his verse must be that by which he lives.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Now my saying shall be my undoing,
And every stone I wind off like a reel.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)