Quotes and Sayings About Plies
-
On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble;His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;The wind it plies the saplings double, And thick on Severn snow the leaves.
-- A. E. Housman -
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet's horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
-- Ben Jonson -
Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
-- E. T. A. Hoffmann -
The aim of poetry and the poet is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual into the larger work of the community as a whole.
-- Seamus Heaney -
I suddenly feel a vague pity for all those writers who have to ply their trade from sleepy American suburbs, writing divorce scenes symbolized by the very slow washing of dishes.
-- Teju Cole
