Silver Laurel Leaf

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

    ‘Guess now who holds thee?’—‘Death,’ I said. But,
    there,
    The silver answer rang, . . . ‘Not Death, but Love.’
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)

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

    “... 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)