Famous quotes containing the words oak, hills and/or high:
“Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done. It is the chief and most memorable success, for history is but a prose narrative of poetic deeds.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“I am going to my own hearthstone,
Bosomd in yon green hills alone
A secret nook in a pleasant land,”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Tragedy is always a mistake; and the loneliness of the deepest thinker, the widest lover, ceases to be pathetic to us so soon as the sun is high enough above the mountains.”
—Margaret Fuller (18101850)
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