Flaming Green Tree

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

    “Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend,
    For the lesson thou hast taught!
    Thus at the flaming forge of life
    Our fortunes must be wrought;
    Thus on its sounding anvil shaped
    Each burning deed and thought!”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)

    “The gentle serpent, green in the mulberry bush,
    Riots with his tongue through the hush—
    Sentinel of the grave who counts us all!”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “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)