Silver Laurel Leaf

Famous quotes containing the words silver, laurel and/or leaf:

    ‘A Shape all light, which with one hand did fling
    Dew on the earth, as if she were the dawn,
    And the invisible rain did ever sing

    ‘A silver music on the mossy lawn;
    Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
    Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    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)