Trees

Famous quotes containing the word trees:

    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)

    an endless wind
    Whips at the headstones of the dead and wails
    In the trees for all who have and have not sinned.
    Anthony Hecht (b. 1923)

    It was when the trees were leafless first in November
    And their blackness became apparent, that one first
    Knew the eccentric to be the base of design.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)