Famous quotes containing the words big, oak and/or flat:
“The hippopotamus is strong
And huge of head and broad of bustle;
The limbs on which he rolls along
Are big with hippopotomuscle.”
—Arthur Guiterman (18911943)
“When the red-cheeked, dancing girls, April and May, trip home to the wintry, misanthropic woods; even the barest, ruggedest, most thunder-cloven old oak will at least send forth some few green sprouts, to welcome such glad-hearted visitants.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“Maybe Rose, there is always another story,
better unsaid, grim or flat or predatory.”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
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