Leafy Stems

Famous quotes containing the words leafy and/or stems:

    “It was such a leafy wilderness; a place for fauns and satyrs, and where bats hung all day to the rocks, and at evening flitted over the water, and fireflies husbanded their light under the grass and leaves against the night.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Let me walk through the fields of paper
    touching with my wand
    dry stems and stunted
    butterflies....”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)