farm quotes

Poetrytriestotell you about a vision intheunvisionary language of farm, city and love.

- Paul Hamilton Engle
  In Life, 28 May.

How often have I paused on every charm, The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm, The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topped the neighbouring hill.

- Oliver Goldsmith
  The Deserted Village, l.9^12.

When a man takes a farm from which another has been evicted, you must show him on the roadside when you meet him; you must show him in the streets of the town; you must show him in the fair and the market place; and even in the house of worship, by leaving him severely aloneby putting him into a moral Coventry, by isolating himfromhiskindasif hewerea leperofold.You must show himyourdetestationofthe crimesthat hehas committed.

- Charles Stewart Parnell
  Speech that established the practice of boycotting, Ennis, 19 Sep.

Alone until she dies,Bessie Bighead, hired help, born in the workhouse, smelling of the cowshed, snores bass and gruff on a couch of straw in a loft in Salt Lake Farm and picks a posy of daisies in Sunday Meadow to put on the grave of Gomer Owen who kissed her once by the pig-sty when she wasn't looking and never kissed her again although she was looking all the time.

- Dylan Marlais Thomas
  Under MilkWood.

As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little differencewhether youare committedtoa farm or the county jail.

- Henry David Thoreau
  Walden, or Life in theWoods,'Where I Lived, andWhat I Lived For'.