Pound Shells

Famous quotes containing the words pound and/or shells:

    “Haie! Haie!
    These were the swift to harry;
    These the keen-scented;
    These were the souls of blood.
    Slow on the leash,
    pallid the leash-men!”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

    “As many as the shells that are on the shore, so many are
    the pains of love; the darts that wound are steeped in
    much poison.”
    —Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)