Famous quotes containing the words tone and/or poems:
“Whose are the truly labored sentences? From the weak and flimsy periods of the politician and literary man, we are glad to turn even to the description of work, the simple record of the month’s labor in the farmer’s almanac, to restore our tone and spirits.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“You live by writing
Your poems on a farm and call that farming.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)