Famous quotes containing the words leaf and/or spot:
“Hast ou fashioned so airy a mood
To draw up leaf from the root?
Hast ou found a cloud so light
As seemed neither mist nor shade?”
—Ezra Pound (18851972)
“No sooner is your ocean filled, than he grumbles that it might have been of better vintage. Try him with half of a Universe, of an Omnipotence, he sets to quarrelling with the proprietor of the other half, and declares himself the most maltreated of men. Always there is a black spot in our sunshine: it is even as I said, the Shadow of Ourselves.”
—Thomas Carlyle (17951881)
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