Big Oak Flat

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

“The big round tears
Coursed one another down his innocent nose
In piteous chase.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“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)

“Castaway, your time is a flat sea that doesn’t stop,
with no new land to make for and no new stories to swap.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)