Poplar Leaf

Famous quotes containing the words poplar and/or leaf:

“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)

“frog pond ...
a leaf falls in
without a sound”
—Bernard Lionel Einbond (b. 1937)