Wood Notes

Famous quotes containing the words wood and/or notes:

    “Let the palings of her bed
    Be quince and box-wood overlaid
    with the scented bark of yew.
    That all the wood in blossoming,
    May calm her heart and cool her blood
    For losing of her maidenhood.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “In trying to understand the appeal of best-sellers, it is well to remember that whistles can be made sounding certain notes which are clearly audible to dogs and other of the lower animals, though man is incapable of hearing them.”
    —Rebecca West (1892–1983)