Pluck Quotes
Paulo Coelho (2011). “Like the Flowing River: Thoughts and Reflections”, p.18, HarperCollins UK
To write a blues song is to regiment riots and pluck gems from graves.
Etheridge Knight (1980). “Born of a woman: new and selected poems”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
The caterpillars of the commonwealth, Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.
William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (1998). “Richard II”, p.45, Oxford University Press, USA
William Allingham, Helen Paterson Allingham (1912). “Poems”
Kathie Lee Gifford (2009). “Just When I Thought I'd Dropped My Last Egg”, p.152, Ballantine Books
Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
Alexandre Dumas (2003). “The Count of Monte Cristo”, p.216, Bantam Classics
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Edward Capell (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.226
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.437
Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.120, Crossing Press