Eastern Cottonwood

Famous quotes containing the words eastern and/or cottonwood:

“I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience—it also marks the time, which is four o’clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.”
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)

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