Bay Fig Trees

Famous quotes containing the words bay, fig and/or trees:

    “A great work by an Englishman is like a great battle won by England. It is an unfading bay tree.”
    —Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)

    “A fig for
    The seal of fire,
    Death hairy-heeled, and the tapped ghost in wood,
    We make me mystic as the arm of air,
    The two-a-vein, the foreskin, and the cloud.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “For many are the trees of God that grow
    In Paradise, and various, yet unknown
    To us; in such abundance lies our choice
    As leaves a greater store of fruit untouched,
    Still hanging incorruptible, till men
    Grow up to their provision, and more hands
    Help to disburden Nature of her bearth.””
    —John Milton (1608–1674)