Smooth Newts

Famous quotes containing the words smooth and/or newts:

    Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if equal pains were taken to smooth and polish their manners?
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Even the newts are white,

    Those holy Joes.
    And the fish, the fish—
    Christ! they are panes of ice.
    Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)