Big Oak Flat

Famous quotes containing the words big, oak and/or flat:

    “The big toad sits in my writing room
    preventing me from writing. I am a flower
    who dries out under her hot breath.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “Where he swings in the wind and rain,
    In the sun and in the snow,
    Without pleasure, without pain,
    On the dead oak tree bough.”
    —Edward Thomas (1878–1917)

    “If the juggler is tired now, if the broom stands
    In the dust again, if the table starts to drop
    Through the daily dark again, and though the plate
    Lies flat on the table top,
    For him we batter our hands
    Who has won for once over the world’s weight.”
    —Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)