Sunken Hearth

Famous quotes containing the words sunken and/or hearth:

    “Turn your eyes to the immoderate past,
    Turn to the inscrutable infantry rising
    Demons out of the earth—they will not last.
    Stonewall, Stonewall, and the sunken fields of hemp,
    Shiloh, Antietam, Malvern Hill, Bull Run.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “To be admitted to Nature’s hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)