Willow Branches

Famous quotes containing the words willow branches, willow and/or branches:

    Lay a garland on my hearse,
    Of the dismal yew;
    Maidens, willow branches bear;
    Say I died true.
    Francis Beaumont (1584-1616)

    There is a willow grows aslant a brook
    That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.
    Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)