Canto-xiii Quote by Dante Alighieri

“The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted.”

— Byron

“leaves were like lace, criss-crossing blackly over tangles of dead branches. I”

— Kiran Millwood Hargrave

“We went on, cutting through the branches, and it was as if we were swimming through a sea of leaves, with the bushes as…

— Ayn Rand

“It was a garden, a walled garden. Overgrown but with beautiful bones visible still. Someone had cared for this garden once. The remains of…

— Kate Morton

It was not the apple on the tree but the pair on the ground that caused the trouble in the garden of Eden.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“We came to woodlands, with leaves unfurling on every branch, as if one blow of spring's green hammer had set them exploding from the…

— Mark Lawrence

“It was only leaves and branches.”

— Eiji Yoshikawa

“People only picked the pretty, sweet-smelling flowers. The ones with thorns were left alone.”

— Nenia Campbell

“Despite the heavy, motionless silence of the hawthorns, these gusts of fragrance came to me like the murmuring of an intense vitality, with which…

— Marcel Proust

“The garden stretched out in a soft drift, colors jumbled any way, an unmade bed of red and yellow and pink. Then came the…

— Cathleen Schine

The thorn tree just began to bud And greening stained the sheltering hedge, An many a violet beside the wood Peeped blue between the…

— John Clare

“Clearings opened on either side. Familiar smells drifted in the air: fennel, skirrets and alexanders, then wild garlic, radishes and broom. John looked about…

— Lawrence Norfolk