Gold Leaves

Famous quotes containing the words gold and/or leaves:

    And the Goddess?
    She stands
    between the worlds.
    She is ivory,
    her breast bare, her bare arms
    braceleted with gold snakes.
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing,
    All alone stood it and the moss hung down from the branches,
    Without any companion it grew there uttering joyous leaves of dark
    green,
    And its look, rude, unbending, lusty, made me think of myself,
    But I wonder’d how it could utter joyous leaves standing alone
    there without its friend near, for I knew I could not,
    Walt Whitman (1819–1892)