Leaves Quotes
Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
With its leaves so rich and heavy with elation and its crimson face made brighter with visions of divinity the shadow of a certain rose looks just like an angel eating light.
The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime.
Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn.
The smallest sprout shows there is really no death. And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it.
This sunlight shames November where he grieves In dead red leaves, and will not let him shun The day, though bough with bough be overrun. But with a blessing every glade receives High salutation.
From now on, I don't care if my tea leaves spell 'Die, Ron, Die,' I'm chucking them in the bin where they belong.
I was born to find goblins in their caves / And chase moonlight / To see shadows and seek hidden rivers / To hear the rain fall on dry leaves / And chat a bit with death across foggy nights.
The most affluent may be stripped of all, and find his worldly comforts, like so many withered leaves, dropping from him.
I know I am deathless We have thus far exhausted trillions of winters and summers, There are trillions ahead, and trillions ahead of them.
O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, / The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won
Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away; but, Genius lies on the bosom of Memory, and Gratitude at her feet.
Mythology is about Good VS Evil, is it not? We can pretend runes and astrology and reading tea leaves...But to whom do we pray when we are terrified? Carl Sagan's essays?
I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots.
Thoughts come and go like leaves in the wind, but the core of consciousness is forever.
House of Leaves is certainly about the unsettling nature of fear - and it was my aim to address that - but its also about recovering from fear.
I am sad, like the hot dust on the streets And the music of fresh fallen leaves Caught in a sliding summer breeze.
But one, the lofty follower of the Sun, Sad when he sets, shuts up her yellow leaves Drooping all night; and, when he warm returns, Points her enamoured bosom to his ray.
Of course, with the last ads shipped and the last polls conducted, there's not much to do but try to read the tea leaves. And from what Democrats are seeing, it doesn't look good. At all.
Suspension of disbelief and that whole question is part of the heart of the 'Leaves of Grass'movie.
When men once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees
Flowers are red, and green leaves are green. There's no need to see flowers any other way than the way they always have been seen.
I have never really thought of him as a person, either.... A guy whose strings were broken, who didn’t feel the root of his leaves of grass connected to the field, a guy who was cracked. Like me.
I can almost imagine a happiness without her, the ability to let her go, to feel our roots are connected even if I never see that leaf of grass again.'
Well, it's funny because, "The Green Leaves of Summer" and "The Alamo" theme are the same thing. There's just - the Brothers Four was a different recording of it.
Dry leaves upon the wall, Which flap like rustling wings and seek escape, A single frosted cluster on the grape Still hangs--and that is all.
I tried to film 'Leaves of Grass' in Oklahoma, but it was literally about a million dollars less to shoot in Louisiana.
