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)

    “And nothing I cared, at my sky blue trades, that time allows
    In all his tuneful turning so few and such morning songs
    Before the children green and golden
    Follow him out of grace.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “A tree swayed overwater.
    A voice said:
    Stay. Stay by the slip-ooze. Stay.”
    —Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)