Leaf Drop

Famous quotes containing the words leaf and/or drop:

“Southern trees bear a strange fruit
Blood on the leaf and blood at the root
Black bodies swingin’ in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hangin’ in the poplar trees.”
—Billie Holiday [Eleanor Fagan] (1915–1959)

“we drop into the soup
and drown
in the worry festering inside us,
lest our children
go so fast
they go.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)