Spreading Chestnut Tree

Famous quotes containing the words spreading chestnut tree, spreading chestnut, spreading and/or tree:

    Under the spreading chestnut tree
    I sold you and you sold me:
    There lie they, and here lie we
    Under the spreading chestnut tree.
    George Orwell (1903–1950)

    Under the spreading chestnut tree
    I sold you and you sold me:
    There lie they, and here lie we
    Under the spreading chestnut tree.
    George Orwell (1903–1950)

    For Occupation—This—
    The spreading wide my narrow Hands
    To gather Paradise—
    Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

    Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, & they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals & is utterly useless to any one; a blight never does good to a tree, & if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight.
    William Blake (1757–1827)