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Leaves Quotes by Mary Oliver
- When the blackberries hang swollen in the woods, in the brambles nobody owns, I spend all day among the high branches, reaching my ripped arms,…
- Sometimes I spend all day trying to count the leaves on a single tree... Of course I have to give up, but by then I'm…
- Around me the trees stir in their leaves and call out, Stay awhile.
- Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in the haystack of…
- At Blackwater Pond the tossed waters have settled after a night of rain. I dip my cupped hands. I drink a long time. It tastes…
- Mornings at Blackwater" For years, every morning, I drank from Blackwater Pond. It was flavored with oak leaves and also, no doubt, the feet of…
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- Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory. — Thomas Beecham
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- Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. — Walter Benjamin
- The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his… — Leonard Bernstein
- I'm really interested in fashion but at the same time I find it quite competitive. Second-hand stuff leaves you more open to… — Sophie Ellis Bextor
- When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more. — Mayim Bialik
- Travelers repose and dream among my leaves. — William Blake
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- The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created. — Jacob Bronowski