Pine Grove Furnace

Famous quotes containing the words pine, grove and/or furnace:

    “I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    “Bees don’t swarm in a mango grove for nothing.
    Where can you see a wisp of smoke
    without a fire?”
    —Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)

    “What the hammer?What the chain?
    In what furnace was thy brain?
    What the anvil?What dread grasp
    Dare its deadly terrors clasp?”
    —William Blake (1757–1827)