Ploughshare Quotes

Myriads of daisies have shone forth in flower Near the lark's nest, and in their natural hour Have passed away less happy than the one That by the unwilling ploughshare died to prove The tender charm of poetry and love. (William Wordsworth)
I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress. View quote
Thomas Mann
The artist who parades his drawing, the writer who wishes to attract praise to his style, resemble the soldier who plumes himself on his unif onn but refuses to go into battle, or the farmer who polishes the ploughshare instead of driving it into the earth. View quote
Auguste Rodin
Let mystery have its place in you do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring ... View quote
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
What matter that no cannon had been turned Into a ploughshare? View quote
William Butler Yeats