Woods Quotes - Page 7
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
"Lycidas" l. 192 (1638)
John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.288
Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 576-77, Ars Poetica, XXX, 1922.
There is a love of wood, as of other things that do not answer to our touch.
Elizabeth Hand (1997). “Glimmering”
Charles Dickens (1861). “Great Expectations”, p.248
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
Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.54