Famous quotes containing the words california, black and/or oak:
“The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days & more of them, than any other country.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Black one, black one,
there was a white
candle in your heart.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“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)