Cottonwood Falls

Famous quotes containing the words cottonwood and/or falls:

“Three centuries of piety
Grown bare as a cottonwood tree ...”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)

“This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.”
—Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)