North Fair Oaks

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

“Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints
Of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“whence such fair garments, such prosperi-ty?’—
‘O didn’t you know I’d been ruined?’ said she.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

“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)