Owl Creek Road

Famous quotes containing the words owl, creek and/or road:

    “The little owl flew through the night,
    As if the people in the air
    Were frightened and he frightened them,
    By being there....”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “The only law was that enforced by the Creek Lighthorsemen and the U.S. deputy marshals who paid rare and brief visits; or the “two volumes of common law” that every man carried strapped to his thighs.”
    —State of Oklahoma, U.S. relief program (1935-1943)

    “Down the road someone is practicing scales,
    The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of tails,”
    —Louis MacNeice (1907–1963)