Famous quotes containing the words silver, laurel and/or leaf:
“A black pall, you know, with a silver cross on it, or R.I.P.requiescat in paceyou know. That seems to me the most beautiful expressionI like it much better than He is a jolly good fellow, which is simply rowdy.”
—Thomas Mann (18751955)
“No more shall the war cry sever,
Or the winding rivers be red:
They banish our anger forever
When they laurel the graves of our dead!
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the Judgment Day:
Love and tears for the Blue;
Tears and love for the Gray.”
—Francis Miles Finch (18271907)
“Hast ou fashioned so airy a mood
To draw up leaf from the root?
Hast ou found a cloud so light
As seemed neither mist nor shade?”
—Ezra Pound (18851972)