Flaming Green Tree

Famous quotes containing the words flaming, green and/or tree:

    “Between extremities
    Man runs his course;
    A brand, or flaming breath,
    Comes to destroy
    All those antinomies
    Of day and night....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.”
    —Robert Green Ingersoll (1833–1899)

    “What I want to say, Linda,
    is that there is nothing in your body that lies.
    All that is new is telling the truth.
    I’m here, that somebody else,
    an old tree in the background.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)