City Maple Leaf

Famous quotes containing the words city, maple and/or leaf:

    “Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say, is the city that changes least. After an absence of twenty or thirty years, one still recognizes it.”
    —Marguerite Duras (b. 1914)

    “Her teacher’s certainty it must be Mabel
    Made Maple first take notice of her name.
    She asked her father and he told her, “Maple
    Maple is right.””
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “Hast ‘ou fashioned so airy a mood
    To draw up leaf from the root?
    Hast ‘ou found a cloud so light
    As seemed neither mist nor shade?”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)