grain quotes

O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed Hisgrace on thee. And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea.

- Katharine Lee Bates
  'America the Beautiful', opening lines.

   Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.

-John Dryden
  Constantine the Great, epilogue.

The Divine is everywhere, even in a grain of sand, here I have represented it in bull-rushes.

- Caspar David Friedrich
Remark to the German artist Peter Cornelius, quoted in S Hinz Caspar David Friedrich in Briefen und Bekenntnissen (1968).

She taught me what her uncle once taught her: How easily the biggest coal block split If you got the grain and hammer angled right. The sound of that relaxed alluring blow, Its co-opted and obliterated echo, Taught me to hit, taught me to loosen, Taught me between the hammer and the block To face the music. Teach me now to listen, To strike it rich behind the linear black.

- SeamusJustin Heaney
  The Haw Lantern,'Clearances: In Memoriam M.K.H., 1911^1984'.

When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain, Before high-piled books, in charactery, Hold like rich garners the full ripened grain.

-John Keats
  'When I Have FearsThat I May Cease to Be'.

There'll always be an England While there's a country lane, Wherever there's a cottage small Beside a field of grain.

- Ross and Charles, Hugh Parker
  Song.

No little lily-handed baronet he, A great broad-shouldered genial Englishman, A lord of fat prize-oxen and of sheep, A raiser of huge melons and of pine, A patron of some thirty charities, A pamphleteer on guano and on grain.

-Tennyson
  The Princess,'Conclusion', l.84^9.

And common is the commonplace, And vacant chaff well meant for grain.

-Tennyson
  In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 6, l.3^4.