Famous quotes containing the words gold and/or leaves:
“In the gold mouth of a flower
the black smell of spring earth.
No more skulls on our desks
but the pervasive
testing of death....”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“Like to the Artick needle, that doth guide
The wandring shade by his magnetick powr,
And leaves his silken Gnomon to decide
The question of the controverted houre;”
—Francis Quarles (15921644)