Famous quotes containing the words sexton and/or woods:
“you come, a brave ghost, to fix
in my mind without praise
or paradise
to make me your inheritor.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“Hard labor and spare diet they had, and off wooden trenchers, but they had peace and freedom, and the wailing of the tempest in the woods sounded kindlier in their ear than the smooth voice of the prelates, at home, in England.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)