Sap

Famous quotes containing the word sap:

“Think you, my lord, there is no sensation in being a tree? feeling the sap in one’s boughs, the breeze in one’s foliage?”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“The fascination of what’s difficult
Has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent
Spontaneous joy and natural content
Out of my heart.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“a dance sacred as the sap in
the trees,”
—Archie Randolph Ammons (b. 1926)