Famous quotes containing the words american and/or oak:
“The American ideal is youth—handsome, empty youth.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)
“Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done. It is the chief and most memorable success, for history is but a prose narrative of poetic deeds.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)