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Moles Quotes

All but blind In his chambered hole Gropes for worms The four-clawed Mole.

Walter De la Mare (2007). “Down-Adown-Derry”, p.64, Juniper Grove

Glory be to God for dappled things.

"Pied Beauty" l. 1 (written 1877)

But my future is a secret. / It is as shy as a mole.

Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

If you would keep your soul From spotted sight or sound, Live like the velvet mole; Go burrow underground.

Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.12, Kent State University Press

The mole can't live in your dollhouse.

"Singer-Songwriter Brandi Carlile: On Leaving a Better World for Her Daughter". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2015.

Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors.

Sir Thomas Browne (1844). “Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals”, p.155

Thus Nero went up and down Greece and challenged the fiddlers at their trade. Æropus, a Macedonian king, made lanterns; Harcatius, the king of Parthia, was a mole-catcher; and Biantes, the Lydian, filed needles.

Jeremy Taylor (1859). “The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying: Together with Prayers and Acts of Virtue, and Rules for the Visitation of the Sick, and Offices Proper for that Ministry”, p.11

The flower and fruit of love are mine The ant, the fieldmouse and the mole

Stevie Smith, James MacGibbon (1983). “Collected Poems”, p.103, New Directions Publishing