South Plank Road

Famous quotes containing the words south, plank and/or road:

    “In the far South the sun of autumn is passing
    Like Walt Whitman walking along a ruddy shore.
    He is singing and chanting the things that are part of him,
    The worlds that were and will be, death and day.
    Nothing is final, he chants. No man shall see the end.
    His beard is of fire and his staff is a leaping flame.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.”
    —L. Frank Baum (1856–1919)