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1 " A precious, mouldering pleasure ’t is To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think. "
― Emily Dickinson , The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
2 " A precious, mouldering pleasure 't isTo meet an antique bookIn just the dress his century wore;A privilege, I think,His venerable hand to take,And warming in our own,A passage back, or two, to makeTo times when he was young.His quaint opinions to inspect,His knowledge to unfoldOn what concerns our mutual mind,The literature of old... "
3 " Everything is important. To the smallest insect, even the mouldering tree, the deepest stone in the drift. "
― Marlene van Niekerk , Agaat
4 " A few cold words on yonder stone, A corpse as cold as they can be - Vain words, and mouldering dust, alone - Can this be all that's left of thee? O, no! thy spirit lingers still Where'er thy sunny smile was seen: There's less of darkness, less of chill On earth, than if thou hadst not been.Thou breathest in my bosom yet, And dwellest in my beating heart; And, while I cannot quite forget, Thou, darling, canst not quite depart. "
― Anne Brontë
5 " The bread which you hold back belongs to the hungry; the coat, which you guard in your locked storage-chests, belongs to the naked; the footwear mouldering in your closet belongs to those without shoes. The silver that you keep hidden in a safe place belongs to the one in need. Thus, however many are those whom you could have provided for, so many are those whom you wrong. "
― Basil the Great
6 " At least a circus performance does not last long, and the regime availing itself of the services of clownish journalists has the longevity of a mouldering mushroom. "
― Anna Politkovskaya , Is Journalism Worth Dying For?: Final Dispatches
