Plain Leaf

Famous quotes containing the words plain and/or leaf:

    Cannot a plain man live and think no harm,
    But that his simple truth must be abused
    With silken, sly, insinuating Jacks?
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “... Can poet’s thought
    That springs from body and in body falls
    Like this pure jet, now lost amid blue sky,
    Now bathing lily leaf and fish’s scale,
    Be mimicry?”
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)