Contradiction Quote by William Butler Yeats

Rise and put on your foliage, and be seen To come forth, like the spring-time, fresh and green, And sweet as Flora. Take no…

— Robert Herrick

And when you sigh from kiss to kiss I hear white Beauty sighing, too, For hours when all must fade like dew.

— William Butler Yeats

Here is Menard's own intimate forest: 'Now I am traversed by bridle paths, under the seal of sun and shade...I live in great density...Shelter…

— Gaston Bachelard

It was the month of May, the month when the foliage of herbs and trees is most freshly green, when buds ripened and blossoms…

— Thomas Malory

The self-righteous have their fig leaves so tightly bound that they have forgotten the seeping wounds beneath the foliage.

— Mark Lowry

Those hours given over to basking in the glow of an imagined future, of being carried away in streams of promise by a love…

— Mark Strand

In a split second of eternity, everything is changed, transfigured. A few bars of music, rising from an unfamiliar place, a touch of perfection…

— Muriel Barbery

See yonder fire! It is the moon slow rising o'er the eastern hill. It glimmers on the forest tips, and through the dewy foliage…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The islands above the falls are covered with foliage as beautiful as can be seen anywhere. Viewed from the mass of rock which overhangs…

— David Livingstone

“This private estate was far enough away from the explosion so that its bamboos, pines, laurel, and maples were still alive, and the green…

— John Hersey

Look not at the face, young girl, look at the heart. The heart of a handsome young man is often deformed. There are hearts…

— Victor Hugo

Plants with leaves no more efficient than today's solar cells could out-compete real plants, crowding the biosphere with an inedible foliage. Tough omnivorous bacteria…

— K. Eric Drexler