Wooden Star

Famous quotes containing the words wooden and/or star:

    Whither went the lovely hoyden?
    Disappeared in blessed wife;
    Servant to a wooden cradle,
    Living in a baby’s life.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    What is Africa to me:
    Copper sun or scarlet sea,
    Jungle star or jungle track,
    Strong bronzed men, or regal black
    Women from whose loins I sprang
    When the birds of Eden sang?
    Countee Cullen (1903–1946)