Green Leaves

Famous quotes containing the words green and/or leaves:

“I passed a tomb among green shades
Where seven anemones with down-dropped heads
Wept tears of dew upon the stone beneath.”
—Unknown. The Thousand and One Nights.

AWP. Anthology of World Poetry, An. Mark Van Doren, ed. (Rev. and enl. Ed., 1936)

“The taste for pleasure attaches us to the present. The concern with our salvation leaves us hanging on the future.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)