Red Hook Village

Famous quotes containing the words red, hook and/or village:

    “Not that the Red Indian will ever possess the broad lands of America. At least I presume not. But his ghost will.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “... with her shoulders as bare as a building,
    with her thin foot and her thin toes,
    with an old red hook in her mouth,
    the mouth that kept bleeding
    into the terrible fields of her soul . . .”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “In Canada an ordinary New England house would be mistaken for the château, and while every village here contains at least several gentlemen or “squires,” there is but one to a seigniory.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)