Thousand Leaves

Famous quotes containing the words thousand and/or leaves:

    “Not a flower, not a flower sweet
    On my black coffin let there be strewn.
    Not a friend, not a friend greet
    My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown.
    A thousand thousand sighs to save,
    Lay me, O, where
    Sad true lover never find my grave,
    To weep there.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “I happened to find
    Your picture. That picture. I stopped there cold,
    Like a man raking piles of dead leaves in his yard
    Who has turned up a severed hand.”
    —William Dewitt Snodgrass (b. 1926)