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)

    “As the shade went up
    And the ambulance came crashing through the dust
    Of the new day, the moon and the sun and the stars,
    And the iceberg slowly sank
    In the volcano and the sea ran far away
    Yellow over the hot sand, green as the green trees.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.”
    —William Blake (1757–1827)