Fair Grove

Famous quotes containing the words fair and/or grove:

“whence such fair garments, such prosperi-ty?’—
‘O didn’t you know I’d been ruined?’ said she.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

“I can’t make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure. Sometimes I think that all our learning is the little learning of the maxim. To laugh at a Roman awe-stricken in a sacred grove is to laugh at something today.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)