Famous quotes containing the words oak, grove and/or village:
“The leaves are all dead on the ground,
Save those that the oak is keeping”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“I cant make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure. Sometimes I think that all our learning is the little learning of the maxim. To laugh at a Roman awe-stricken in a sacred grove is to laugh at something today.”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)
“The startings and arrivals of the cars are now the epochs in the village day.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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