Trees Blown

Famous quotes containing the words trees and/or blown:

    “At twelve, the disintegration of afternoon
    Began, the return to phantomerei, if not
    To phantoms. Till then, it had been the other way:
    One imagined the violet trees but the trees stood green,
    At twelve, as green as ever they would be.
    The sky was blue beyond the vaultiest phrase.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “Thus thinne and lean without a fence or friend,
    I was blown through with ev’ry storm and winde.”
    —George Herbert (1593–1633)