What is mould?

Famous quotes containing the word mould:

“It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

“While this America settles in the mould of its vulgarity, heavily
thickening to empire,
And protest, only a bubble in the molten mass, pops and sighs out,
and the mass hardens,”
—Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)

“The sheer rapture
that I would take
to mould a clear
and frigid statue;”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)