Gold Leaves

Famous quotes containing the words gold and/or leaves:

    “The fifth day of Christmas,
    My true love sent to me
    Five gold rings,”
    —Unknown. The Twelve Days of Christmas (l. 19–21)

    “They said I’d never get you back again.
    I tell you what you’ll never really know:
    all the medical hypothesis
    that explained my brain will never be as true as these
    struck leaves letting go.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)