Falling Strokes

Famous quotes containing the words falling and/or strokes:

“One falling leaf may herald the coming of autumn.”
—Chinese proverb.

“It was the bad ax-helve someone had sold me
“Made on machine,” he said, plowing the grain
With thick thumbnail to show how it ran
Across the handle’s long-drawn serpentine,
Like the two strokes across a dollar sign.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)