Quicken Tree

Famous quotes containing the words quicken and/or tree:

“Drive my dead thoughts over the universe
Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth!
And, by the incantation of this verse,
Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth
Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind!”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

“If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)