Famous quotes containing the words laurel, trail and/or council:
“The strongest poison ever known
Came from Caesar’s laurel crown.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“The ghosts of the villages trail in the sky
Making a new twilight”
—William Stanley Merwin (b. 1927)
“There by some wrinkled stones round a leafless tree
With beards askew, their eyes dull and wild
Twelve ragged men, the council of charity
Wandering the face of the earth a fatherless child....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)