Swamp Chestnut Oak

Famous quotes containing the words swamp and/or oak:

“Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)

“Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done. It is the chief and most memorable success, for history is but a prose narrative of poetic deeds.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)