Thousand Leaves

Famous quotes containing the words thousand and/or leaves:

“Death hath
had a thousand doors to let out life,
I shall find one ... From a loath’d life,
I’ll not an hour outlive.”
—Philip Massinger (1583–1640)

“And haughtier-headed Burke that proved the State a tree,
That this unconquerable labyrinth of the birds, century after century,
Cast but dead leaves to mathematical equality....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)