Bay Laurel Trees

Famous quotes containing the words bay, laurel 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)

    “Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “The trees persist, yeasty and sensuous,
    as thick as saints.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)