North Fair Oaks

Famous quotes containing the words north, fair and/or oaks:

    “Refinement’s origin:
    the remote north country’s
    rice-planting song.”
    —Matsuo Basho (1644–1694)

    “What art thou that usurp’st this time of night,
    Together with that fair and warlike form
    In which the majesty of buried Denmark
    Did sometimes march? By heaven I charge thee speak!”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “He had the oaks for heating and for light.
    He had a hen, he had a pig in sight.
    He had a well, he had the rain to catch.
    He had a ten-by-twenty garden patch.
    Nor did he lack for common entertainment.
    That I assume was what our passing train meant.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)