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Woods Quotes - Page 7

Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?

Jonathan Swift (1761). “The Works of Dr Jonathan Swift, Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin. Accurately Corrected by the Best Editions. With the Author's Life and Character; Notes Historical, Critical, and Explanatory; Tables of Contents, and Indexes. More Complete Than Any Preceding Edition. In Eight Volumes”, p.272

He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 576-77, Ars Poetica, XXX, 1922.

"One impulse from a vernal wood

1798 'The Tables Turned', stanzas 6-8.

Love is a young green willow shimmering at the bare wood's edge

William Carlos Williams (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams”, p.160, New Directions Publishing