Famous quotes containing the words oak and/or island:
“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)
“Our island home
Is far beyond the wave;we will no longer roam.”
—Alfred Tennyson (18091892)