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 a spreading chestnut-tree
    The village smithy stands;
    The smith, a mighty man is he,
    With large and sinewy hands;
    And the muscles of his brawny arms
    Are strong as iron bands.”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)

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

    “Every man is a potential genius until he does something.”
    —Herbert Beerbohm, Sir Tree (1853–1917)