Leaf Quotes

476 quotes by 375 authors

I wish I were the lily's leaf To fade upon that bosom warm, Content to wither, pale and brief, The trophy of thy paler form. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If there were dreams to sell, What would you buy? Some cost a passing bell; Some a light sigh, That shakes from Life's fresh crown… — Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Soft as Memnon's harp at morning, To the inward ear devout, Touched by light, with heavenly warning Your transporting chords ring out. Every leaf in… — John Keble
If thou lookest on the lime-leaf, Thou a heart's form will discover; Therefore are the lindens ever Chosen seats of each fond lover. — Heinrich Heine
At times there seems to be a million ideas worth painting. However, there are days when it's a challenge to pull any idea together. On… — James Dean
Turn over a new leaf. — Edmund Burke
One by one the objects are defined? It quickens: clarity, outline of leaf But now the stark dignity of entrance?Still, the profound change has come… — William Carlos Williams
Which is worse, past or future? Neither. I will fold up my mind like a leaf and drift on this stream over the brink. — William Styron
Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade Of the leaf where you slumbered all day; Be content with the moon and the stars, pretty moth,… — Thomas Haynes Bayly
O maternal earth which rocks the fallen leaf to sleep! — Edgar Lee Masters
And he that will go to bed sober, Falls with the leaf still in October. — Dario Fo
Painting, for me, when it really 'happens,' is as miraculous as any natural phenomenon - as say, a lettuce leaf. By 'happens,' I mean the… — Lee Krasner
That which interests me above all else is the calligraphy of a tree or the tiles of a roof, and I mean leaf by leaf,… — Joan Miro
On me, on me Time and change can heap no more! The painful past with blighting grief Hath left my heart a withered leaf. Time… — Richard Henry Horne
This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight, like a spy,… — Sarah Orne Jewett
The green earth sends her incense up. From many a mountain shrine; From folded leaf and dewey cup She pours her sacred wine. — John Greenleaf Whittier
Beside the grand history of the glaciers and their own, the mountain streams sing the history of every avalanche or earthquake and of snow, all… — John Muir
My dream of happiness: a quiet spot by the Jamaican seashore . . . hearing the wind sob with the beauty and the tragedy of… — Errol Flynn
On leaf of palm, on sedge-wrought roll; on plastic clay and leather scroll, man wrote his thoughts; the ages passed, and lo! the Press was… — John Greenleaf Whittier

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