slate quotes

Name and date split in soft slate a few months obliterate. 166

-Bunting, Basil
  Briggflatts.

What is a modern poet's fate? To write his thoughts upon a slate; The critic spits on what is done, Gives it a wipeöand all isgone.

-Honorius of Autun
'A  Joke'. Collected in Hallam Tennyson  Alfred Lord Tennyson (1897), vol.2, ch.3.

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