To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink. For a shilling the Bruddersford United AFC offered you Conflict and Art.

-Priestley,J(ohn) B(oynton)
  The Good Companions, bk.1, ch.1.

Two evils, monstrous either one apart, Possessed me, and were long and loath at going: A cry of Absence, Absence, in the heart, And in the wood the furious winter blowing.

-Ransom,John Crowe
  Chills and Fever,'Winter Remembered'.

Everyone knowsthat thelabel Modern Art no longer has any relation to the words that compose it. To be Modern Art a work need not be either modern nor art; it need not even be a work. A three-thousand-year-old mask from the South Pacific qualifies as Modern and a piece of wood found on a beach becomes Art.

-Rosenberg, Harold
  'TheAmerican Action Painters', in Art News, no.51, Dec.

   The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood The instant that he fell.

-Scott, Sir Walter
  Marmion, canto 6, stanza 34.

O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood. Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand!

-Scott, Sir Walter
  The Lay of the Last Minstrel, canto 6, stanza 2.

Heap on more wood!öthe wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.

-Scott, Sir Walter
  Marmion, canto 6, introduction.

Proud Maisie is in the wood, Walking so early; Sweet Robin sits on the bush, Singing so rarely.

-Scott, Sir Walter
  The Heart of Midlothian, ch.40 (MadgeWildfire's song).

It was my thirtieth year to heaven Woke to my hearing from harbour and neighbour wood And the mussel pooled and the heron Priested shore.

-Thomas, Dylan Marlais
  'Poem in October'.

To begin at the beginning: It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters'-and- rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea.

-Thomas, Dylan Marlais
  Under MilkWood, opening words.

Many-maned scud-thumper, tub of male whales, maker of worn wood, shrub- ruster, sky-mocker, rave! portly pusher of waves, wind-slave.

-Updike,John Hoyer
  Telephone Poles and Other Poems,'Winter Ocean'.

   That vessel in which the powers of steam are to be employed to work the engine, which is called the Cylinder in common fire engines, and which I call the SteamVessel, must, during the whole time the engine is at work, be kept ashot asthesteamthat entersit; first, by enclosing it ina case of wood, oranyother materialsthat transmit heat slowly; secondly, by surrounding it with steam or other heated bodies; and thirdly, by suffering neither water noranyother substance colder thansteam to enter and touch it during that time.

-Watt,James
  Specification of patent, 5 Jan, for a new method of lessening the consumption of steam and fuel in fire engines.

One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can. Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:ö We murder to dissect. Enough of science and of art; Close up those barren leaves; Come forth and bring with you a heart That watches and receives.

-Wordsworth,William
  'TheTablesTurned', stanzas 6^8.