Leaf Drop

Famous quotes containing the words leaf and/or drop:

    I will not speak of the famous beauty of dead women:
    I will say the shape of a leaf lay once on your hair.
    Till the world ends and the eyes are out and the mouths broken,
    Look! It is there!
    Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)

    How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father’s or mother’s life?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)